ABSTRACT
People know and love shared folders. The problem is keeping pace with overall data growth. Specifically, as shared folder content continues to grow unabated, the lack of tools to manage the data means more hard drives, more servers, more stuff to back up, more stuff to find when a user forgets that he/she intentionally renamed or moved a project folder. The source of the shared folder growth problem is that unstructured data growth is accelerating, and there is no obvious way to archive data. Content management systems has metadata that tracks who created a document, who edited it, when it was last edited, and when it was last opened/read. Files and folders have no metadata or structure to flag data to keep and data to migrate or retire.
