1. Data or information that exceeds what is needed, required, or can be immediately used; excess data that is redundant or superfluous
The company had to deal with surplus data after the server upgrade.
A empresa teve que lidar com dados excedentes após a atualização do servidor.
2. In computing and data management, information that is beyond the necessary threshold for operations or storage capacity
We need to delete surplus data to optimize our storage system.
Precisamos deletar dados excedentes para otimizar nosso sistema de armazenamento.