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Information growth 'hampers data compliance'
Category: Data compliance
21 August, 2008
Data compliance efforts may be obstructed by the rapid growth in information that many companies have to store, it has been suggested.Research conducted by Forrester indicates that a fifth of all expenditure on data centres is currently spent on keeping pace with information growth.
Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst at Forrester, says: "An archival system becomes critical when you need to access archived information in response to a legal summons."
The commentator adds that "the value of archiving grows considerably as it becomes easier to access the archived data".
Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of those surveyed also said that the majority of their information is stored on Tier 1 equipment - which Forrester notes is typically more expensive than long-term archiving capacity.
In a recent edition of its periodical Forrester Wave report, the analyst noted that data compliance is among the driving forces currently behind the uptake of data leak prevention services among businesses.
