Data's Dark Side
Your data has a secret. And it’s going to cost you.
Let's get started.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
How does your company compare?
Let’s find out.
Slide to indicate your current storage needs:
FACT:
The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
FACT:
The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
Breaking down the data
10pb = 23.1 billion files
What you should know:
According to Vanson Bourne, 15% of the average company’s data is considered business-critical, 33% is ROT, and 52% is unclassified—aka “dark.”
Let’s dig a little deeper.
where is your company headquartered?
How your company's dark data ranks with the world:
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50%
100%
Dark Data
ROT Data
Business-Critical Data
86% of IT decision makers think the amount of data they store increases the time it takes to respond to a data breach.
FACT:
Companies based in the USA have lower than average redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data (30%), but slightly higher than average Dark Data (54%).
The worst Dark Data offenders are Germany, Canada, and Australia with respectively 66%, 64%, and 62% of their stored data defined as dark.
1.6%
of total file population
5.1%
of total storage capacity
Orphaned data (e.g., files with no discernible owner) comprises only 1.6% of total file population, but eats up 5.1% of total storage capacity.
86% of IT decision makers think the amount of data they store increases the time it takes to respond to a data breach.
