Your data has a secret. And it’s going to cost you.
Let's get started. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Did you know?
On average, 52% of a company’s data is “dark,” meaning that no value has been assigned to it.
How does your company compare? Let’s find out.
Slide to indicate your current storage needs:
FACT: The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
10PB
250TB100PB
FACT: The average enterprise stores 10PB of data.
Breaking down the data
10pb = 23.1 billion files
File Count (in millions)
Storage (in TBs)
What you should know:
According to Vanson Bourne, 15% of the average company’s data is considered business-critical, 33% is ROT, and 52% is unclassified—aka “dark.”
You're currently storing
12,012,000,000
files you know absolutely nothing about. Some of these files are valuable. A lot of them are redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT for short).
According to Vanson Bourne, 15% of the average company’s data is considered business-critical, 33% is ROT, and 52% is unclassified—aka “dark.”
Let’s dig a little deeper.
where is your company headquartered?
How your company's dark data ranks with the world:
0%50%100%
Dark DataROT DataBusiness-Critical Data
86% of IT decision makers think the amount of data they store increases the time it takes to respond to a data breach.
FACT: Companies based in the USA have lower than average redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data (30%), but slightly higher than average Dark Data (54%).
The worst Dark Data offenders are Germany, Canada, and Australia with respectively 66%, 64%, and 62% of their stored data defined as dark.
1.6%
of total file population
5.1%
of total storage capacity
Orphaned data (e.g., files with no discernible owner) comprises only 1.6% of total file population, but eats up 5.1% of total storage capacity.
86% of IT decision makers think the amount of data they store increases the time it takes to respond to a data breach.
But now for the real nitty gritty:
How much is all this data costing your company?
$50,000,000
The average cost to store 1PB of data for 1 year is $5 million.
Let’s break down that storage cost.
Business-critical, stale, or dark—all data costs money to store. How much?
Storage Costs
Dark Data
$26M
per year
ROT Data
$16.5M
per year
Business-Critical Data
$7.5M
per year
Stale Data
$20.5M
per year
Orphaned Data
$2.5M
per year
Target-Rich Data
$750K
per year
Next year, organizations will create 39% more data than this year. The question is: Will your budget grow 39% too?
$26,000,000
per year
That’s right, 52% of your entire data storage budget is spent on data you know absolutely nothing about.
$20,500,000 per year
Even scarier, you’re spending 41% of your total storage costs to store data that no one has touched in three years or more.
$750,000 per year
And most troubling, only 1.5% of your entire storage budget is spent on data that's transformative and can drive value.
Next year, organizations will create 39% more data than this year. The question is: Will your budget grow 39% too?
There has to be a better way.
Start by shedding more light on all your Dark Data with Information Map from Veritas.