The following are reasons why many organizations are trying to reduce and right-size their information foot-print by using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication:

A. None of the above

B. reduce risk of systems failures due to overloading

C. improve data quality and reduce redundancies, reduce increased and staggering storage management costs,

D. Both A and B

C. improve data quality and reduce redundancies, reduce increased and staggering storage management costs

Explanation:

Excess data retention can lead to retention of redundant and irrelevant data, which can reduce data handling and processing efficiency, while at the same time increasing the cost of data storage and management. This can be curbed be reducing data to the right size by using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication