Useless data clogging worldwide storage.

• Position: E-STORAGE - Brief article

Veritas Technologies' "Databerg Report 2015" reveals that public and private sector companies in South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa have created a "databerg," a massive block of "dark, useless, and expensive data" that is clogging up storage facilities at businesses worldwide.

The report identified three major causes for databerg growth:

1. Data volumes disproportionately affecting IT strategy

2. Vendor hype driving the widespread adoption of currently free storage

3. Employees putting corporate data at risk through their own actions and becoming data hoarders

The report advises companies : * Identify dark data, expose...