In today’s era of seemingly infinite data volume and complexity, many enterprises are unintentionally neglecting an entire category of data that is critical to their data protection and management practices. On average, more than 50% of a company’s data is “dark” – information held up in data repositories with no attached or determined value. In addition to costing an average $26 million in storage expenses per year, dark data poses significant risks to an enterprise’s security and compliance efforts, making it more important than ever to address the foundational issues that cause it.
