Useful Narragansett Bay Web Sites: 1  Narragansett Bay Commission. 2  Narragansett Bay Estuary Program. 3  Narragansett Bay PORTS. 4  National Estuary Research Reserve, Narragansett Bay. 5  Monitoring Network for Narragansett Bay Waters. 6  Save the Bay. 7  Rhode Island Sea Grant.
DEFINITION of 'Information Silo'. An information management system that is unable to freely communicate with other information management systems. Communication within an information silo is always vertical, making it difficult or impossible for the system to work with unrelated systems.
On farms, silos work. Different grains serve different purposes, and so it's important to keep them separate. In business, the silo metaphor is applied to organizations with departments, units and functions that lack the means or motivation to work in an integrated fashion. Silos often exist at the product, industry and department levels. A common departmental silo, particularly among small businesses, is marketing.