The vast majority of an organization’s data—approximately 80 percent—is not actively in use in primary systems. It’s data stored in backups, archives, file shares, object stores, development and test systems, and analytics datasets both onsite and across public and private clouds.

Cohesity has issued a series of global market studies concerning mass data fragmentation and its impact on IT.

The first report details the difficulty in managing data across silos.

The new report focuses on the public cloud.