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The Rising Cost of Data Storage

With an increased dependence on huge, rapidly growing piles of data that must be backed up and duplicated, this PC World article says that our data is growing so rapidly because it is far easier to create data than it is to get rid of it.

"It would be easy to respond to that question by trotting out the usual suspects. For example, high-definition technologies such as medical imaging, document imaging, and video certainly eat up lots of space. And who can deny that compliance regulations have forced us to retain more and more documents and messages?

"Look across enterprise networks today and the same problem is plays itself out over and over. In some cases, the problem resides with people like myself who aren't organized enough to retain only the information they need. But even if all employees were exceptionally fastidious about managing their own data, I can almost guarantee you that the systems they use on a daily basis were built by people who weren't quite as tapped down."