GEC NEWS WIRENew Veritas Data Genomics Index Delivers Industry First Insights into Business Data Composition
In its inaugural Data Genomics Index, Veritas Technologies released the industry’s first accurate view of the composition of enterprise data. This real-time view of today’s corporate data reveals that over 40% of files have remained untouched for three years, creating an opportunity for businesses to positively impact their bottom line costs. The Data Genomics Index is the first step towards benchmarking enterprise data environments to catalyze interest and action in this growing challenge.
The Index reveals that images, developer files and compressed files take up almost one third of the total environment. Developer files from a file count perspective are a massive 20% of the total number. When we look at trends over the past 10 years, relative to other file types, presentations have declined 500%. Finally we are trending away from death by PowerPoint.
Data without an attributed owner, either through role changes or employee departures, is orphaned. This data is often out of sight and out of mind for organizations and it is costing them.
“By aggregating Veritas’ unique understanding of key metadata characteristics we can surface an accurate representation of the average data environment. These insights will change the crippling growth dynamic enterprises are faced with today,” said Steve Vranyes, CTO, Veritas.
