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06/04/2020 Stop Looking for Cheaper Data Storage and Start Looking at the Data You Store | LinkedIn Search Stop Looking for Cheaper Data Storage and Start Looking at the Data You Store Published on July 30, 2019 Mark Underwood Helping businesses adapt to change, innovate, disrupt the status quo & deliver better business outcomes faster. 14 articles Following In the last ten years, the cost of data storage has plummeted by 80%. A consumer can get a 4TB drive for under £100, that’s just £0.025 per GB but while drive costs are measured in pennies per gigabyte, the reality of enterprise storage is much more difficult to calculate and much more expensive. One of the most common enterprise cloud storage concerns is cost. Organisations often move to cloud storage to reduce their costs; however, the expected savings don't always materialise. A study found that 31 percent of organisations surveyed had realised that cloud storage did not reduce costs to the levels they had forecasted. Cloud storage pricing is complicated, and organisations sometimes struggle to find the best value for their requirements. Most cloud storage providers have different prices for each of their storage services, archive and backup storage costing less than primary block or object storage. The simplest way to reduce storage costs is to reduce the volume of data stored and to ensure that the right data is stored in the right storage service, as not all data is equal and not all data holds value for the company. Holding data on high performance storage that should be archived is wasted money. The challenge is to know what data is stored and to Insightful or deleted Comment Share 20 · 1Messaging Comment https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-looking-cheaper-data-storage-start-you-store-mark-underwood/ Linked Hеlpеr drag mе 1/3 06/04/2020 Stop Looking for Cheaper Data Storage and Start Looking at the Data You Store | LinkedIn Search apply classifications to the different types of data. Only around 15 percent of a company's data is business critical, a third is redundant, obsolete or trivial data and around a half is dark data that contains many unknowns. Many companies are reluctant to delete the dark data because of the mistaken belief that more data means more value. However, the dark data is often made up of employees’ personal data; photos, music, videos and social media content. None of this has any value to the company. A company could dramatically slash its data storage and backup costs if it addressed the redundant, obsolete and trivial data and deleted much of its dark data. To do this however they need to know what that data actually is and to classify it. For many companies this is the real issue, it is a task that they feel requires multiple tools and a lot of manual work. It doesn't have to be such a problem, in fact, it can be addressed without having to resort to multiple tools and manual processes. SCC’s ManageSMART Information Intelligence service gives a business full visibility of their data right across all their data stores. It will turn data into information and ultimately intelligence. In a time where the volume of data storage is about to grow, lack of visibility will lead to increased unnecessary cost and non-compliance. That is not an option. Follow us @ https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/scc-london/ or drop me an Inmail for more insights. Report this Published by Mark Underwood Helping businesses adapt to change, innovate, disrupt the status quo & deliver better business outcomes faster. Published • 8mo 14 articles Following In the last ten years the cost of data storage has plummeted by 80%. A consumer can get a 4TB drive for under £100, thatʼs just £0.025 per GB but while drive costs are measured in pennies per gigabyte, the reality of enterprise storage is much more difficult to calculate and much more expensive. Reactions +8 1 Comment Add a comment… Aaron Townsend • 2nd Head of Infrastructure and Operations 8mo Very true Mark... The cheaper it gets, the more we store.... And then the more we need the right backup solutions to match! Not to mention the most efficient ways to access that data, organise it, etc. Something a lot of people forget about, especially at home. · 2 Likes Messaging https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-looking-cheaper-data-storage-start-you-store-mark-underwood/ Linked Hеlpеr drag mе 2/3 06/04/2020 Stop Looking for Cheaper Data Storage and Start Looking at the Data You Store | LinkedIn disruptUnderwood the status quo & deliver better business outcomes faster. Search Helping businesses adapt to change, innovate,Mark Following More from Mark Underwood Why is remote working such an issue for so many companies? Mark Underwood on LinkedIn Have you considered Device as a Service? Mark Underwood on LinkedIn We have never been more connected. Mark Underwood on LinkedIn What is Lurking Under the Surface of Your Data Lake? Mark Underwood on LinkedIn See all 14 articles Messaging https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-looking-cheaper-data-storage-start-you-store-mark-underwood/ Linked Hеlpеr drag mе 3/3