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In a recent blog post I noted that the average enterprise data center saves all data forever. For many of the storage administrators at these data centers, that’s petabytes of data growing at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30% and more. Yes, the practice becomes hugely expensive and therefore seems irrational. And yes over the long term we can all agree that it’s unsustainable. But as I said in my previous post, it’s been this way for years—in fact, decades. Save-everything-forever is the default data retention policy and will be for the foreseeable future unless the enterprise […]
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