OK, we've got your data. But we really want to delete it ASAP

No kidding. We need the storage

Storage is a big deal for IT people and beancounters alike. For the IT team the story is pretty consistent: there's never quite enough, and the users seem to eat it up and an amazing rate. For the finance team it's a seemingly endless queue of IT people asking for funds for yet more storage because the rate of growth in stored data seems to accelerate more than anyone ever predicts."