Cost of Digital Information

A rarely examined cost.  Some stats I have seen nowhere else. " ... From confidential customer information, to intellectual property, to financial transactions, organizations possess massive amounts of information that must be collected, retained and analyzed to keep the business competitive, but it comes at a huge cost, according to security specialist Symantec's State of Information Survey. Digital information costs businesses worldwide $1.1 trillion annually, the report found, but also makes up 49 percent of an organization's total value.... "