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Today's IT managers have
added an extra role to their already busy schedules
- corporate archivists. They are responsible not
just for recovering data that is lost when a system
crashes, but also for keeping copies of corporate
communications, in perpetuity. Under new corporate
governance and compliancy laws, and with the rash
of legal actions in North America , it is imperative
that IT departments have a system that allows them
to painlessly, and cost-effectively, archive their
data. At the same time, IT managers need storage
architectures in place that allow them to run their
businesses day-to-day, retrieving data quickly
and easily.
Information Life-Cycle Management (ILM) provides a system for managing and storing your information that meets the demands of today's environment.
- It takes complexity out of IT storage
- It helps an organization rapidly recover the data it needs
- It helps control IT storage cost
- It provides a strong foundation to meet compliancy requirement
 HP, a partner of Kanatek, and a thought leader in the area of ILM, uses the following graphic to demonstrate the managed life-cycle approach to data.
ILM, in HP's words is “a strategy for managing your data from creation to deletion and everything in between”.
The ubiquity of storage means that it has become almost a plug-and-play phenomenon and IT managers are thinking more about how they strategically organise their data, as shown in this diagram, than how they actually manage their storage.
ILM is a framework of policies, processes and technologies that lets IT managers use it as an effective strategy to help them manage their environment. |
