It is vital to control your organisation’s data and reduce the generation of new data.
To begin with, define the directions for sorting and archiving within your organisation. Put in place a clear, user-friendly tree data structure in order to enable all of your colleagues to use it effectively.
In order to reduce the volume of data, regularly encourage your colleagues to undertake sorting in the network, filter files placed on servers in order to exclude irrelevant video and music files, and compress files, etc.
You should also think about limiting the data stream (reduction of the quality of videos streamed on the Internet, remote meetings using audio as against video, etc.).
GOOD TO KNOW
In 2015, the Uptime Institute considered that 30% of servers in data centres in the United States were comatose, that is to say switched on without doing any work. However, it is observed that when the use of a server decreases, its electricity consumption does not move towards zero, but rather remains at about 50% of its maximum electrical power. (Interstices study)