Archiving Best Practices: 9 Steps to Successful Information Lifecycle Management by Informatica
Organizations that use pre-packaged ERP/CRM, custom, and 3rd party applications are seeing their production databases grow exponentially. At the same time, business policies and regulations require them to retain structured and unstructured data indefinitely. Storing increasing amounts of data on production systems is a recipe for poor performance no matter how much hardware is added or an application is tuned. Organizations need a way to manage this growth effectively. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has promoted the concept of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) as a means of better aligning the business value of data with the most appropriate and cost effective IT...