Survey: 50% Of IT Teams Not Ready For Unstructured Data Growth

OTTAWA, April 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acaveo, developer of market leading file analysis software, announced it has teamed up with Osterman Research to determine how organizations are managing their unstructured data growth. With ever higher storage costs and security risks associated with massive amounts of unstructured data stored by organizations, Information Governance (IG) initiatives are not gaining momentum as quickly as expected.

Acaveo and Osterman Research found that, of over 100 responding enterprises with a median of 20 TB of unstructured data stored, only 37% regularly audited the amount of data that employees or business units produce. Only half of surveyed organizations had a IG program in place.

Some other survey findings include:

• Only 55% of surveyed enterprises perform regular file share cleanup exercises.
• Only 40% of surveyed enterprises had a defensible deletion program in place.
• Of those organizations that have an Information Governance program in place, 75% justify the program based on storage costs.

Readers who wish to compare their IG parameters to the industry average are invited to take a condensed version of the survey or download an infographic summary.

About ACAVEO
Acaveo is a market leading vendor of File Analysis software for enterprises seeking to reduce the cost and risk associated with their unstructured data. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Acaveo is a Microsoft Partner with an international client base. Acaveo's software is used by IT and Information Governance professionals to manage valuable information assets, conduct data deletion and migration, improve compliance and security, and reduce data storage and eDiscovery costs.

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