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IT budgets are expected to remain flat for the foreseeable future yet the data keeps piling up. It’s predicted that the global active data install base could reach up to 36 zettabytes by 2030. Organizations need highly cost efficient data storage. Get the info in this short video here and let me know your thoughts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d440ryRGUcE

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I don’t doubt that we’ll get to sizes like that, but I think that the whole keeping 100% of our data forever idea is frankly insane.

There are so many things that can be purged and aren’t needed even minutes after reading them. Compliance laws AND normal business practices need to be updated to the reality that trying to keep everything not only results in a purposeless pile of outdated slush, but that it also creates huge security risks.

Yes, absolutely, keep important things for a certain amount of time, but let’s be more discerning about what those things are and not be afraid to take out the digital trash.

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This is absolutely true. I think the big problem we get into is that no one wants to make the call that “we don’t need this anymore”. I’m bad about this, not just with electronic data but with other things as well. I have a printout of the Visio network diagram from my previous job. I absolutely do NOT need it. But throwing it away feels like I’m throwing away the dozens of hours I spent creating it.

Also, sometimes TIME is more expensive than storage…it takes time to make the decisions of what we need to hold onto and what can go. So instead we end up with clutter. Yet managing clutter also takes time. Unfortunately, the “solution” all to often is to just archive “just in case”, so its out of sight, resulting in almost no data actually being purged.

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If I look at how much data I personally need, it’s about 200 - 300 gigs of pictures, videos and documents.
Everything else is just replaceable clutter

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