As of January 2025, 144 countries have established data privacy regulations, significantly influencing organizations' end-of-life data management practices, with regulatory compliance cited as the primary reason by 38% of surveyed companies. Sustainability concerns also play a crucial role, impacting 34% of decisions. Despite these regulations, only 21% of enterprise data is adequately tagged, complicating the assessment of redundant or obsolete data. Encouragingly, 58% of enterprises have boosted their investments in data privacy and protection over the past year, responding to an array of new regulations and expectations surrounding responsible data management.
With 144 countries now having data privacy and protection regulations in place as of January 2025, and ongoing moves to regulate artificial intelligence, regulatory compliance became the top reason for changing end-of-life data management practices.
Only 21% of enterprise data is tagged and classified, making it difficult to tell how much of it is redundant, obsolete, or trivial, and thus ripe for removal.
The survey found that 58% of enterprises surveyed have increased their investments in data privacy and protection in the past year, by an average 46%.
There was no single investment trigger; for most, it's the accumulation of new rules, new technologies, and mounting expectations around responsible data and hardware disposal.
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