We've heard it over and over again. Gartner Group tells us that 25% to 40% of what's on our storage is junk - expired, unneeded, inappropriate. What are we doing about it? Mostly nothing. However, as storage expands and companies move to tiered storage, the cost just grows and grows. First we pay for it on primary storage. Then we pay to migrate it to secondary storage - and the space to keep it there. Finally we pay to move the junk to archive. So we don't just pay for it once, we pay for it 4 or 5 times over.

Given this, the value of getting rid of even a fraction of the junk isn't a few terabytes, it's a few terabytes times 4 or times 5. This is real money.

Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:51:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)      Comments [0]  Observations | Storage Management