Many companies know their data growth is a problem. However, companies have difficulties answering basic questions on how this growth relates to overall business objectives. What on the surface might appear to be very basic questions, are often extremely difficult to answer:

• What project, user, business unit caused the growth?"
• When did it happen, who is responsible for the data?"
• Is the data growth attributable to a valid business objective, project, customer, or work order?"

Business facing reports to decision makers provide executives a clear view of where money is being spent (where, why, what next) as a result of data growth. "Data enabling" decision makers is the first step towards getting off the "we need more storage" treadmill.