Enterprises Collect More Unstructured Data and Pay More to Manage It

Companies Are Collecting More Unstructured Data and Spending More to Manage It, Amid Mounting AI Challenges

Komprise, the leader in analytics-driven unstructured data management, announces the results of its annual industry survey. A whopping 85 percent of IT and data storage leaders are projecting an increase in data storage spend in 2026 while 74% are storing more than 5PB of unstructured data, a 57% increase over 2024, according to the Komprise 2026 State of Unstructured Data Management. Unstructured data is central to enterprises across industries…

Enterprises collect more unstructured data and pay more to manage it

A new report from Komprise shows that 85 percent of IT and data storage leaders are projecting an increase in data storage spend in 2026, while 74 percent are storing more than 5PB of unstructured data, a 57 percent increase over 2024. To cope with these rising data volumes and outsized spending, enterprise IT infrastructure teams are looking to implement unstructured data classification. Survey respondents rank this as the top strategy to discr…