Η Veritas Technologies LLC, a backup and recovery solution company, announced the results of Databerg Report 2015, which examines how European public and private organizations manage their data.
Among the important issues that the research demonstrates are how employees view corporate IT systems infrastructure and corporate management's over-reliance on cloud-based storage infrastructure. Such issues raise questions about whether they should be the subject of regulatory changes, while also creating higher risks of loss data.
According to Veritas' Databerg Report 2015, 59% of data stored and processed by organizations in the United Kingdom is invisible and could contain everything like videos for ... cats and adult material, creating an increased risk of non-compliance , with the applicable regulations.
The report also estimates that a medium-sized UK organization maintains around 1.000 Terabytes of information, spending around €602k (£435k) annually on ROT data (ROT = Redundant, Obsolete or Trivial), or in a word for useless data. This means that just 12% of the cost of data storage is spent on critical (and useful) data, at United Kingdom.
The number is one of the lowest performance of clean data in the entire survey.
"While computer data should serve the purposes of any organization, it is clear that in the UK the opposite is true. "The key findings of the Databerg Report 2015 reflect the fact that companies are investing a significant portion of their resources in data retention that is completely unrelated to their business," he said. Matthew Ellard, Senior Vice President EMEA of Veritas.
"The survey reveals that one in three companies in the UK stores redundant, obsolete and insignificant (ROT) data in its corporate networks. A typical medium-sized company with 500 Terabytes of data wastes almost 1,4 million euros (1 XNUMX million) every year to store junk files such as photos, personal documents of employees, music and videos.
Η έρευνα παρέχει πληροφορίες για το πώς οι 1.475 ερωτηθέντες σε 14 χώρες, σε όλη την περιοχή του ΕΜΕΑ (συμπεριλαμβανομένων 200 ατόμων στη Μ. Βρετανία) σχετίζονται με τις προκλήσεις που αφορούν την conversion of data into truly valuable business insights. The report introduces a new phenomenon called the Databerg, consisting of three main types of data stored by organizations today:
- Business Critical Data: These are data that are recognized as vital to the functioning and success of an evolving organization. Business Critical Data must be preventively protected and managed in real time by professionals with clearly-defined responsibilities from the organization's management.
- ROT Data: Data identified as redundant, obsolete or irrelevant. ROT Data should be proactively minimized and deleted with better safety on a regular basis.
- Dark Data: Data whose value is not valued. They may include critical business data, useless data, or, most importantly, illegal and non-compliant data, thus assigning the heart of corporate IT systems with indefinite responsibilities.
The survey found that a typical UK organization reports Dark Data rates as high as 59% (EMEA MOR: 54%), ROT Data rates of 29% (EMEA MOR: 32%), and just 12% identified critical business data (EMEA M.O.: 14%). This equates to up to €798bn (£576bn)1 of corporate resources being wasted on storing useless data if the Companies do not change strategy and tactics in information management.
As organizations move more cloud data to cope with rapid data volume scaling, cloud storage and cloud processing needs will increase by at least one-third (from 33% to 45%) throughout the EMEA region, over the next year, as the survey reveals. In the UK, only 43% of respondents said they would use cloud infrastructure up to 2016, lower than the European average. In any case, there is a risk that organizations that adopt such cloud services do not have the appropriate policies to calculate additional costs such as switch to another provider or release from the cloud service in an emergency.
What does Databerg create?
The research revealed three main reasons for the development of a Databerg (data iceberg). These relate to how data volumes disproportionately affect IT strategy, how providers promote "free" limited-time storage practices, and how employees compromise corporate data through misguided actions. These reasons can be summarized in the following three points:
1. IT Strategies based on volume data management rather than business value.
2. Increasing reliance on "free" storage practices, such as cloud platforms.
3. Increasing indifference by employees for corporate data management policies.
According to the survey, these factors are the main reasons for the existence of Dark and ROT Data, as they usually do not allow corporate governance to have direct supervision of computer resources. This also entails legal dangers, which are not apparent from the outset.
Recommendations from the Databerg Report
The research suggests some measures that can be taken by organizations to gain valuable insight into their information and reduce the associated risks:
• Identifying Dark Data with risks and highlighting critical information.
• Immediate elimination of ROT Data, to reduce waste.
• Establishing applicable governance strategies for unstructured data and encouraging the adoption of behavioral behaviors that are compatible with corporate policy.
• Increased flexibility by using data storage in cloud environments.
The Databerg Report 2015
The Veritas Databerg 2015 survey was conducted by Vanson Bourne between July and September 2015. Results are based on 1.475 respondents in 14 countries. Respondents include senior IT executives who have focused on strategic planning and operating practices for businesses and organizations.
For additional information about the Veritas Databerg Report 2015, please visit http://info.veritas.com/databerg_report
