Big data. Little data. Offsite data. On-premises data. Primary data. Archive data. Data comes in all shapes and sizes. As a culture of pack rats, we all love data of all kinds. We even conducted a whole campaign last year where we told everyone to «Embrace Storage Hogs.» And for good reason. The reality is that unless there’s a very compelling reason not to, most of us like to save most of our data «just in case.»
And based on the results of our latest survey, that may be exactly what you’re doing. This summer, while at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York, we conducted a survey of nearly 150 (cloud-disposed) attendees.
So what did we find?