I have no idea how much data we had 5 years ago, but that's when we
implemented two EMC CX700s. We've since added a CX4-960 and have allocated
over 55TB of space.

- Sean

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>wrote:

> 10 years ago we had 1T of data, now we have 18T (and planning to upgrade
> our storage next year).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:19 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: document sprawl
>
> Me too. When I arrived here eight years ago, we had 32 gigs of data. Now we
> have over 2 TBs...
>
> Just buy larger servers...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:17 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: document sprawl
>
> I have attempted to tackle this issue before, I like to call it "encourage
> spring cleaning!" but my words always seem to fall on deaf ears.
>
> Lately every time I bring it up we end up buying more hard drives for the
> server!  I give up.  Maybe I'm just too cheap?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In regards to email, we were able to establish a retention policy that
> > messages in the Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items folders are all
> > deleted after 90 days.  Exchange mailbox manager allowed to do that
> > weekly.  Don't manage other folders.  Not perfect, but it helped.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Don Guyer <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
>  >> I'd be interested in a solution to this. Been fighting it for years
> >> to no avail, other than running a "data inventory" program (such as
> >> TreeSize) and doing a manual compare.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't forget all of the email attachments saved along with the
> >> original email.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don Guyer
> >>
> >> Systems Engineer - Information Services
> >>
> >> Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
> >>
> >> 431 W. Lancaster Avenue
> >>
> >> Devon, PA 19333
> >>
> >> Direct: (610) 993-3299
> >>
> >> Fax: (610) 650-5306
> >>
> >> [email protected]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: S Powell [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:17 AM
> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> Subject: document sprawl
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello Everybody </Dr. Nick>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd like to pick your brains about how you deal with document sprawl,
> >> I was reading in another thread about how users would use their
> >> "Recycle Bin" as their archive. <shudder>
> >>
> >> we have users that will keep tens of copies of the same document in
> >> various locations around their "My Documents"; as well as in tens of
> >> locations within  our "shared" folders on the network ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> User education only goes so far when it comes to "please don't do
> >> that" as they nod and then keep doing it.
> >>
> >>  I think we've moved beyond being nice and we've found ourselves
> >>
> >> mired in needing a sledgehammer.  I'd just like to wrap it in a bit
> >> of velvet.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thoughts, Policies, procedures etc, would be helpful in this.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ./s
> >> Google.com  Learn it. Live it. Love it.
> >>
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