America's Big Data Obesity Problem via @infomgmt

Our data centers are obese, bloated with terabytes of big data with minimal “nutritional value”, and splitting at their seams. More importantly, it’s negatively impacting your bottom line.

Strange article from Information Management.  It does however highlight some important points.

• We are all guilty of storing and keeping too much data - be that at home on our computer, in our filing cabinet (both at home and at work), or within our company.  Yes I know some data has to be kept for a specified number of years for regulatory reasons, but do we need it all available immediately?  
• Do we have an archive strategy?  I know the cost of storage is going down but it is not an excuse for keeping everything.
• Do we even have valid/correct data?  There is no point doing analyses on incorrect data which either wastes time, money or both and can subsequently lead to bad decisions.