Firms should add information access technologies, says Gartner

CIOs should consider other approaches to the way they handle old corporate data, rather than buying more storage, Gartner has advised.

The analyst firm said that organisations that keep all their information because of the threat of litigation and regulatory action, and the fear of losing something that might eventually prove valuable will significantly overspend on storage.

While some CIOs argue that storage is getting cheaper, Whit Andrews, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, pointed out that the "current explosion of information is outpacing the decline in storage prices even before the resource costs for maintaining data are taken into account".

He added: "This makes it a very good time for enterprises to streamline and modernise their information and access systems by identifying redundant information and eliminating applications retained to handle this."

Gartner said that information access technologies could help organisations reduce the amount of data they hold in both primary and secondary storage, as well as helping them to identify information kept in primary storage that can safely be moved to secondary storage.

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