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Storage: Unstructured Data Swamps Storage Administrators

By Dick Weisinger

IDC reports that 75% of new data being stored on new dick storage capacity is unstructured data.  That’s consistent with the 80% figure that’s often cited by AIIM and other vendors. And when coupled with an expected annual growth rate

Storage: Smart Storage Saves Bytes (and Dollars)

By Dick Weisinger

Planning a strategy for data storage has evolved from one that tries to keep pace with storage growth by just buying new units. A strategy today needs to account for data security, disaster recovery, and technology capabilities like deduplication and

Storage: Ever More Abundant. Ever More to Manage.

By Dick Weisinger

The storage capacity of the average device is doubling every year and with that growth, the cost of per-megabyte of storage is plummeting. But both companies and consumers are finding ways to fill that ever growing capacity. Businesses are increasing

Data Overflow: One Million English Words and Phrases

By Dick Weisinger

IDC says that the size of the digital universe is doubling every eighteen months.  Parallel to that explosion of data is the expansion of terminology in the English language. According to Global Language Monitor, a new English word or phrase

Storage: World's Data Doubles every 18 Months

By Dick Weisinger

For the past three years IDC Research has been counting how much digital data exists in the world, and they’ve found that in each of those years their estimates for the year has needed to be revised upwards.  New numbers