Stopping the presses at the Chicago Sun Timesled to the rise of a one-of-a-kind mission critical powerhouse on Chicago’s South Side. The 317,000-sq-ft legacy printing facility is now a robust colocation data center, featuring low latency, high reliability, and redundant infrastructure that swaps the written word for digital content — a real sign of the times.
Over the last year I have been writing about the new role of the CIO. Columns have included such topics as program roll outs, TCO and cloud, metadata, the role of the CIO driving profits, and technology innovation.
Metadata is “data about data.”1 There are two metadata types: structural metadata, about the design and specification of data structures or “data about the containers of data;” and descriptive metadata about individual instances of application data or the data content.