Keeping Your Storage at Bay

A wise soul once said that data expands to fill the available space. With the vast amount of storage in today's computers, companies have little incentive to delete superfluous data and otherwise maintain it at a manageable level. You store more than you need and keep data long past the point where it ceases to have any use or meaning. Crowded storage systems slow down, and organizing the space so you can find anything becomes increasingly difficult. How unwieldy is your storage area? How do you manage it? How often do you purge it? How do you encourage your people to part with useless data even though you theoretically have the available space?

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