The storage burden

Implications: Storage demands continue to growth in the wake of digital growth and evolution. Digital storage management requires a prudent approach to life-cycle management.

Analysis: Information is a commodity that more often than not has a shelf life that deteriorates the value with the passing of time.  Although digital storage enables the capture and storage of vast amounts of data--it does come at a cost.
For an enterprise to effectively manage what is required and expected to be stored an life-cycle management policy must be developed.  It is unreasonable to continue to store infinitely grow capacity for data that his minimal and degraded value.  It makes little sense to storage data at a cost of $64 a megabyte if the value to the enterprize is less than $63 a megabyte.  Application developers and OEM storage vendors need to development tools and methods to purge data that is beyond regulatory constraints and value to an enterprise's operational and strategic value. 
For example a phone book, or road map from 10 years ago has very little, other than esoteric value.