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What is your redundant data actually costing you?

Redundant, obsolete and trivial data accounts for up to 80% of most enterprise estates. Move the sliders to see what yours costs in storage, legal exposure and breach blast radius.

Your estate

500 TB

Across M365, file shares, cloud and on-prem.

25%

Typical enterprise growth runs 20–40% a year.

£220

Include backup, replication and management overhead, not just raw storage.

50%

Redundant, obsolete, trivial. Infotechtion sees up to 80% in real estates.

£250k

Set to zero if this does not apply to you.

Year-one opportunity£292,500storage waste removed plus eDiscovery reduction
ROT data you are storing250 TBRedundant, obsolete, trivial
Wasted storage spend / year£55,000Paid to store data with no value
3-year waste if nothing changes£262,109Compounding at 25% growth
eDiscovery saving at 20X£237,500From £250,000 down to £12,500
Saving by archiving at 10X cheaper£49,500For cold data you must keep
Breach blast radius reduction50%If it isn't there, it can't be stolen

Figures use your inputs together with Infotechtion’s published benchmarks: up to 80% ROT in enterprise estates, 20X eDiscovery cost reduction, and 10X savings when cold data moves to archive tiers. Treat them as a directional business case, not a quote.

How Infotechtion recovers this
Data Minimization Data Retention Data Archiving Posture Management

Turn this into a defensible business case

We run a real assessment of your estate, size the ROT precisely, and build the retention and minimization rules that recover this spend with an audit trail behind every deletion.