1. As digital information continues to grow out of control (to nearly 1.8 zettabytes (1,800 exabytes) by 20111), organizations face the prospect of higher and higher storage costs. While the cost of storage is declining, information stores are growing. They are growing so quickly, in fact, that storage is costing organizations more, despite the reduction in hardware costs. Coupled with litigation and regulatory concerns, the rising cost of storage is forcing organizations to think about ways of deleting information.

   
   

   The reality is that most organizations do not have enough insight into their stored data to delete with any degree of confidence—it could be information that should be on legal hold, or contain valuable knowledge assets, or it could be subject to longer regulatory retention periods. Since they have no way of efficiently analyzing the data, most organizations simply keep it—and submit to rising storage costs with no end in sight.

   
   
   

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