Information Management
What is information? What is data? These questions can very easily be answered: data will become information once the data takes on meaning for the recipient.
It simply isn’t possible to include the daily amounts of data in the back-up and to secure this through replication and local copies. After all, the management costs associated with inactive data would be as high as the costs for your active data. However, one aspect which must be considered is that the law and legislation now states that organisations must keep information, sometimes even for 100 years. The question of when the amount of inactive data will be active again really can’t be answered. The current archiving solutions have enabled us to separate your active and inactive data. One example of this is storage tiering, whereby less frequently used data will automatically be migrated to a cheaper storage layer.
Good archiving solutions can immediately be converted into simplified management, secure data, lower management costs, less back-up, capacity and replication needed and a short and fast restore.