By Sally Watson, 17 May 2000 15:20
NEWS European companies are wasting billions of pounds a year on unnecessary storage. This is according to Callum Lavelle, VP of software specialist Highground. Research by Highground shows up to 45 per cent of data stored by businesses is duplicated, unused or spent on non mission-critical data like personal files. Lavelle said: "Storage is now more distributed because everyone is using NT and Unix. The skill sets, knowledge and tools are not there for companies to manage it effectively." Highground estimates that a medium-sized company with 50 servers could save up to £500,000 a year on storage costs if data was filtered and managed effectively. One large investment bank Highground spoke to estimated it had 250 servers. In fact the company had 380 - but had kept no record.
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