TRUSTED DATA REFINERY

Data Bloat

Eliminate data bloat that's consuming storage budgets and overwhelming governance with Trusted Data Refinery's intelligent data classification and ROT elimination.

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Reviewing the Information That Drives Storage Waste

Data Bloat often metastasizes across scattered systems and departments, leading to data fragmentation. This fragmentation makes it difficult to rapidly identify, access, search for, store, expose risk, analyze, and effectively utilize Data Assets, while dramatically diminishing the anticipated ROI on your organization's expensive investment in data generation, Copilot, and AI tools. Trusted Data Refinery addresses this problem at its source.

The Bloat Problem

With the explosion of Unstructured Data, especially in Windows and Linux File Shares and SharePoint, the escalating volume is overwhelming enterprises. Some of this data may be ROT [Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial] content that is not only costly to store but also poses substantial compliance and liability risks. This Dark Data creates a massive swamp that overwhelms CIO budgets and blocks AI initiatives.

Data Reader: Visibility at Scale

Data Reader inventories supported file estates in place. Coverage and throughput depend on source conditions, scan depth, and the validated deployment.

Data Identifier: ROT Classification

Data Identifier's classification process actively finds duplicates and classifies ROT data for review within the actual estate. By identifying ownership through Active Directory integration, reviewers can investigate who is responsible for bloated content, facilitating targeted campaigns to clean up the storage environment.

Smart Stack: Policy-Based Action

Smart Stack provides Optimized Retention Policy Routing Instructions based on the organization's Policy, Compliance, Utilization, and Security demands. ROT data is identified, classified, and routed to appropriate disposition, whether that's deletion, archival, or continued monitoring. Disposition requires review of retention, legal holds, ownership, and authorization. Identification alone does not authorize deletion.

Key Benefits

Measured Waste Reduction: Measure the extent of avoidable information before approving cleanup.
Ownership Clarity: Know who is responsible for bloated content.
Governed Review: Review cleanup candidates against retention and approval requirements.
AI Enablement: Lean data estate enables effective AI utilization.

Conclusion

Data bloat isn't inevitable, it's a symptom of unmanaged data growth. Trusted Data Refinery addresses the root cause while reclaiming your storage budget and enabling AI readiness.