With all the products that are available today for optimizing storage through deduplication and/or compression, one of the best methods available is deletion and reclamation. IT professionals need a tool from companies like Tek-Tools or APTARE that allows them to audit and trend data in the enterprise. The goal of course is to have this data on the least expensive storage tier while delivering acceptable performance. The best course of action is to move this to a disk archive storage platform, where it can be compressed for longer term storage.”]