Veritas study highlights concerns over data hoarding

Singapore

THE more the merrier, or so goes the mantra with regard to data in this age of big-data analytics. With storage becoming very cheap, ginormous amounts of data are being collected and stored, and there's even a name for it - data hoarding.

Interestingly, it's not just individuals who are storing thousands of files in their computers; even companies are hoarding data, and keeping unnecessary files instead of deleting them.