Information Lifecycle Management:

Today, the amount of information that companies need to manage and use is immense and growing rapidly.This information is increasingly subject to business, legislative or legal requirements. Information has to last longer these days (outliving any single server, storage device, operating system or application).

Much of the legislation governs how long this information needs to be retained and how quickly it may retrieved. To get the most value from their information at the lowest total cost, organizations are taking a close look at Information Lifecycle Management.

Traditionally companies have maintained their historical data within their current applications and data stores. This leads to problems in performance, system capacity and database stability due to what are often overwhelming amounts of data.

However there are now strategies for off-line storage of historical data coupled with fast on-demand retrieval to authorised personnel...... request information