Successful organizations realize the difference between storing data and managing it. The former merely approaches it from a "housing" perspective. The latter seeks to extract value from your data: making it readily available to facilitate efficient business processes and communications. Companies realize further bottom-line benefits by reducing admin overhead. Viewed from this perspective, storage management is no longer strictly an IT concern; it is intrinsic to the way your company performs and competes.

The sheer volume of excess data - whether it is outdated, of no intrinsic value, or simply redundant - adds time and hassle to information retrieval. Which, over time, can be a...