According to Gartner research, data growth is one of the three biggest daily challenges facing enterprises. On average, data capacity in enterprises is growing at between 40% to 60% per annum due to a number of factors including an explosion of unstructured data, such as email and documents, that needs to be stored for continually evolving regulatory requirements. Although the cost of storage is decreasing, housing and managing an ever-increasing amount of information exposes organisations to increased data management and processing expenses, and associated legal and compliance risk. Gartner's recommended strategy is no longer to archive but instead to delete what you do not need and then effectively manage the rest. This is a high-order task for many organisations that lack an enterprise-wide policy-driven approach to information management.

This presentation covers an approach to analysing enterprise information, policies, processes and technology to determine a clear current-state view of how effective the information management is, defining a future state based on business objectives and potential savings, and a strategy on how to get to that state.