Since no organization has billions of employees, this means that most files are unused and will remain unused. There will come a day when active files – files that employees are currently using – will need to be separated from inactive files – files that are no longer being used.
The question becomes: What do we do with the inactive files?
Obviously, we want to put them someplace safe and secure, and someplace inexpensive, since there are lots of inactive files. (At least 80% of most organization’s files are stale and inactive.)
There are plenty of choices as to where to put inactive files, some definitely better than others. The one place you don’t want to put them is in a “ file vault”. A file vault is a proprietary system that packs all the files together and writes them to storage in a way that prevents you from looking inside at your data.
Years ago, when technology was more limited and less flexible, the vault strategy was one of the few things you could do. Today, it’s like using an expensive 20-inch glass-tube monitor when you could have a 27-inch flat screen for a quarter of the price.
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