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According to an estimate by IDC and EMC, by 2010, there will be 988 billion Gigabits of electronic information in the world. Most of this content ‘will be touched' by an organisation along the way – on a network, in a data centre, at a hosting site, at a telephone or Internet switch, or in a backup system. Do you know how much information your organisation owns and how useful it is to your business? Most organisations do not. Eighty-five percent of corporate data is unstructured, information not in an Oracle or SAP database but sitting in shared drives or on local machines. With 30-40% of all data in an organisation duplicated, this creates massive storage reduction opportunities. ILM also allows organisations to create a tiered storage strategy, classifying and moving data to the right level of storage, saving space as well as significant amounts of money. ILM is the environmental elephant in the room, but when adopted across an organisation better management of a data footprint halts ‘information landfill' and can cut the estimated 45% annual growth in storage spend, reducing space, power and cooling for data that is simply not used or valued |
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