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Dark Data to Waste Up to 5.8m Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide this Year
Singapore – April 21, 2020 – Digitization can be part of the solution to climate change but storing digital data that is never used can also consume an enormous amount of energy and, as a result, produce CO2 that need never have been wasted. Veritas estimates that 5.8 million tonnes[1] of CO2 will be unnecessarily pumped into the atmosphere as a result…
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Dark data exceeds 50%, creating major security blind spot for most companies
Global businesses continue to house ‘dark data’ within their organisations, creating a honeypot for cybercriminals, finds research from Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage. The Value of Data study, conducted by Vanson Bourne for Veritas, surveyed 1,500 IT decision makers and data managers across 15 countries. It reveals that…