SHARE High quality and newly harvested is always healthier than cheaply processed and stale. Of course, we’re talking about data here, not food, but the analogy stands. Relying on old, inaccurate data in today’s digital economy will damage a company’s performance and financial health. “It’s about the immediacy of data so that they can act accordingly,” said Anthony Brooks-Williams (pictured, left), chief executive officer of HVR Software Inc. “These days it’s table stakes. It’s about winning, or just surviving, compared to years ago when day-old data, week-old data, that was OK.” Brooks-Williams and Diwakar Goel (pictured, right), global chief data officer at General Electric Co., spoke with John Walls, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a digital CUBE Conversation on the importance of freshness, quality and security for business data.