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- Controlling Storage Costs With Oracle Database 11g
- Recent ESG research indicates that the average database is expected to grow 25% annually. More resources are needed to retain and manage corporate data. Expenses increase due to poor resource utilization - most organizations think 50% storage utilization is acceptable - as companies buy more systems instead of leveraging existing...
- Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Information Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle Database, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-02-01
- WatchIT Video: How to get started with information lifecycle management
- Enterprises are making great strides in transforming their data and information which enable better business decisions. They continue to implement systems and technologies that will enhance and improve their information management and storage environment. Information Lifecycle Management - or ILM - can enable an enterprise to achieve these...
- Tags: Environment, Information Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2007-04-01
- A Sun Storage Technical Brief: Data Protection - The 8 Steps to Cutting IT Operating Costs Without Sacri?cing Data Protection
- For the IT organization struggling to find ways to reduce costs, here's an essential starting point: data classification. By rethinking the company's approach to saving data over the long-term, one can make considerable cuts to the IT storage expenditures - without lowering the amount of data protection one has in...
- Tags: Data Protection, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- information lifecycle management With Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and NetApp SnapLock: Regulatory Compliance for Enterprise Data With Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and NetApp SnapLock
- The number of digital assets that organizations must retain for active reference is subject to regulatory compliance and is ever increasing. Regulatory scrutiny has become increasingly aggressive, with an estimated 10,000 global compliance regulations. Information Lifecycle Management ILM includes technologies and processes to effectively manage enterprise data. Oracle Database 10g...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Oracle Corp., Enterprise Data, Information Lifecycle Management, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, NetApp, Scrutiny, Regulatory Compliance, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Databases, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- On Privacy-Aware information lifecycle management in Enterprises: Setting the Context
- This paper aims at setting the context for privacy-aware information lifecycle management within enterprises, i.e. the process of handling the lifecycle of personal and confidential information in a way that is compliant with privacy laws and people's expectations (including data retention, deletion, notifications, data transformation, etc.). Despite the fact that...
- Tags: Aware, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lifecycle Management, Privacy, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-10-12
- Controlling Data Growth and System Performance Through an information lifecycle management (ILM)-Oriented Archiving Approach With HP StorageWorks Reference Information Manager for Databases
- Between 1996 and 1999 Tektronix successfully implemented Oracle Applications on a single instance for its entire business spanning 23 countries. This paper discusses some of the issues generated by this Oracle Applications implementation and the steps taken to mitigate the challenges presented by growing application data. The paper primarily focuses...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, HP StorageWorks, Archiving, Information Lifecycle Management, Data Growth, Performance Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- The information lifecycle management Imperative
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM has gained significant buzz in the marketplace for good reason: ILM solutions offer the promise of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing revenue. These benefits appeal to today's executives, who are intent on leveraging IT into a competitive advantage. That's a tall order, but ILM addresses...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, International Data Group, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Partnering With HP in information lifecycle management
- Organizations of all types are under pressure to facilitate access to information while protecting it and adhering to regulatory requirements that affect the management of that information. As a result, the need for a well-integrated information management infrastructure is increasing. An effective information infrastructure, however, goes well beyond merely storing...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Information Lifecycle Management, International Data Group, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The Toxic Terabyte: How data-dumping threatens business efficiency
- As companies, government departments, and other organizations accumulate information at an accelerating rate, they face growing costs and inefficiencies that threaten their ability to function. The answer lies not just in new ways of applying IT technology and services, but also in changes in individual and organizational behavior. ...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., IT Industry, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and information lifecycle management More Closely Related Than You Thought
- Information lifecycle management is not normally associated with business continuity and disaster recovery, but in fact they share many common features. This paper outlines these similarities and provides techniques for leveraging existing business continuity and disaster recovery investments for more efficient overall information management. Although generally not considered to be...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, Business Continuity, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Disaster Recovery, It Services, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-06-01
- BC Cancer Agency Drives New Levels of Patient Care Quality
- The BC Cancer Agency BCCA provides a cancer care program for the people of British Columbia. BC Cancer Agency wanted to store and protect all cancer related images and make them available throughout multiple facilities as part of the electronic patient record. BC Cancer Agency deployed the Bycast StorageGRID MultiSite...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, pacs, information lifecycle management, grid computing
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Best Practices in information lifecycle management Security
- Data security is a critical component of information lifecycle management maturity. This paper describes best practices in securing data through identity management from the perspective of Information Lifecycle Management ILM. It is intended as a high-level introduction to the main categories of storage security and considerations in balancing conflicting storage...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, Best Practice, Data Security, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Storage Resource Management: An Essential Ingredient for information lifecycle management
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. Storage Resource Management SRM is both foundational to ILM and essential to its ongoing execution. Implementing SRM processes and tools can leverage information lifecycle management's contribution to the...
- Tags: Storage, Information Lifecycle Management, Storage Resource Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-04-01
- information lifecycle management Best Practices in Business/IT Alignment
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. Managing based on business value requires alignment between the business and IT. This paper describes a process for achieving business/IT alignment in support of an ILM strategy. The...
- Tags: Strategy, Alignment, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Identity-Enabled information lifecycle management (ILM)
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM has long focused on the one-way migration of data from high-cost media to less-expensive storage options. Identity-Enabled ILM takes data management to a new level by introducing data access based on organizational identities and support for bi-directional information flow. This paper describes Identity-Enabled ILM and Sun's...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Information Lifecycle Management, Identity, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Data Management, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Storage Optimization: information lifecycle management
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. Optimizing storage is the process of aligning storage use with service level requirements. The objective of storage optimization is to meet business requirements at the lowest possible cost....
- Tags: Optimization, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Maximizing the Business Value of information lifecycle management
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. In the early stages of an ILM implementation, most of the focus and benefits are internal to IT. In later stages, most of the benefits accrue to the...
- Tags: Benefit, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-03-01
- The Role of Archiving in ILM
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is an IT strategy that employs technology to deploy and access data according to business demands. ILM makes use of multiple tiers of storage devices and proactive management to automatically move data between storage tiers based on a set of specific policies that define how data...
- Tags: Strategy, Archiving, Storage, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management Strategy, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2006-02-01
- information lifecycle management - Benchmark Study: Maturity Progression
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. This paper is the result of a benchmark study assessing the maturity of over 900 IT organizations in North America and Western Europe. This paper is the second...
- Tags: Progression, Sun Microsystems Inc., Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Archive Storage Technologies Supporting information lifecycle management
- A large amount of fixed content has been generated due to the ongoing development of the broadband Internet and digital information technology. Consequently, there is a growing need for a special archive storage system that efficiently preserves and manages a large amount of content at low cost. Fujitsu has taken...
- Tags: Tape Library, Fujitsu Ltd., Information Lifecycle Management, Disk Array, Backups, Storage, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
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