Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
The confluence of regulatory compliance requirements, exponential
growth of information storage demands and increased retention
requirements has pushed Information Life Cycle Management to
the forefront.
While legal and business regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and
HIPAA are gathering a lot of press, the list of major regulatory
requirements impacts almost every industry vertical. These regulatory
issues create additional fuel to the growth requirements for
storage capacity and the accessibility and accountability for
information. Fundamentally, ILM addresses optimizing the performance,
availability, retention and final disposition of information
assets at the optimum economic.
What is ILM? Information Life Cycle Management optimizes the
cost of storing, protecting and recovering information by migrating
data to the appropriate storage technology based on availability,
performance and retention requirements. DCi accomplishes this
for its customers through a tiered infrastructure that enables
different services and service levels with different cost structures.
Data is categorized and a software overlay enables reporting,
protection and migration capabilities.
It is the combination of migration and retention policies based
upon usage and access patterns, a tiered storage resource management
utility, categorized data, and content and document management
tools providing protection, retention, and migration capabilities
that are the enablers of ILM.
Compliance
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