ABSTRACT
Developing data protection policies in isolation and disconnected from any planning around data life cycle is a serious problem for any business to make. Data life-cycle management is something that should be absolutely fundamental to the IT organization within any business, yet remains randomly or haphazardly implemented in most. In some IT departments, delete in particular is an indelicate word, but archive is not far behind it. These IT departments are guilty of data hoarding they mistakenly believe that it's cheaper to keep everything on primary storage than to actively reduce it. Data hoarding is a serious problem well entrenched in many enterprises, and with the explosive growth of data within business, the problems faced by hoarders only continue to grow. The most common objection raised by businesses to a formal archive architecture is the perceived cost of the infrastructure required and the necessity to still perform data protection against the archival storage. True hoarding is a recognized psychological condition.
