Most UK businesses keeping too much data.

• Position: RETENTION - Brief article

Seventy-five percent of businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) can't differentiate between a record that must be retained and data clutter, according to a recent survey conducted by Crown Records Management.

The survey, which polled IT decision makers in UK organizations with more than 200 employees, also found that:

* 55% do not have an e-mail retention policy in place.

* 58% do not audit their paper-based data regularly or destroy data that is no longer required.

* 60% do not regularly review what data is stored in the cloud or onsite.

* 64% do not filter what goes into the cloud.

* 76% do not have systems in place to help them distinguish between records...