Dell Says 90% of Recorded Business Data Is Never Read

Barence writes "According to a Dell briefing given to PC Pro, 90% of company data is written once and never read again. If Dell's observation about dead weight is right, then it could easily turn out that splitting your data between live and old, fast and slow, work-in-progress versus archive, will become the dominant way to price and specify your servers and network architectures in the future. 'The only remaining question will then be: why on earth did we squander so much money by not thinking this way until now?'" As the writer points out, the "90 percent" figure is ambiguous, to put it lightly.

Comments

Coincidence?

[Hognoxious]

90% - just like the percentage of statistics that are made up on the spot.

Re:Coincidence?

[dov_0]

Or is dell about to make a press release about faulty storage in their servers resulting in about 90% data loss?

Re:Coincidence?

[espiesp]

Or having developed a new memory technology.

"Dell releases a new drive based on their patented WORN architecture. Because this device forgoes the need to read your data they can be made lighter and faster and more power efficient than even the latest SSD drive technology."

Perfect

[Andreaskem]

A perfect application for my patented write-only memory.

this is actionable: think of the storage savings

[rubycodez]

this helps me to be a better employee. From now on I'll only save 25% of the data I acquire, because the odds are the other 75% would only be needed 7.5% of the time. In other words, 92.5% chance not likely to be needed at all.