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Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
As business data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and pervasive regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, and the Patriot Act compel organizations to store data longer, archiving presents a meaningful solution for dealing with DR and operational challenges. By building a tiered storage infrastructure and setting in motion information lifecycle management (ILM) practices, an organization can maximize their resources. Archiving allows a business to allocate different types of data and applications to different classes of storage based on performance, availability and recovery requirements. By understanding the relative value of data, companies are then able to maximize their storage investments by maintaining only critical information on costly, high-performance storage platforms while off-loading less essential data to less expensive, lower performance devices.
Furthermore, organizations that couple tiered storage architectures with policies to automate the migration of data to the right platforms can also benefit from reduced backup and recovery times. The number and type of storage tiers can vary according to an organization's need. Organizations can add additional tiers, such as ATA disk technology, to accommodate information in moderate demand, as well as content addressable storage (CAS) and WORM drives for materials that require long-term archival and guaranteed authenticity, such as those related to compliance regulations. The ATA and CAS tiers put into play for archiving can also help minimize backup costs because companies can begin to remove static data from their daily backup schemes, which will reduce their investment in tape while simultaneously shrinking their backup windows. Organizations are also able to achieve full backup and recovery much faster because there is less critical data to move.
For more information about InLine's storage solutions, please contact our Storage Specialist:
Brian Collier
205-278-8123
BCollier@InLine.com
