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Published on: March 09, 2009
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Unknown
Length: 17 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
Where data archiving is about performance, Information Lifecycle Management is about compliance. The distinction isn't a break with the past - it's an evolution.

Data archiving strategies are designed to improve performance and manage costs, moving static data from the online database to offline archives. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) adds a new level to the performance-cost dynamic: manage data in compliance with outside and corporate retention rules and business requirements; maintain ready access to data and documents; protect the organization from legal and business risk.

SAP calls Information Lifecycle Management the combination of "policies, processes, practices, and technologies used to align the business value of information with the most appropriate and effective IT infrastructure from the time information is conceived through its final disposition." At its core, ILM is the practice of thinking and acting strategically about how data is managed in the organization: where it is stored, how quickly can it be accessed, how it is tracked, and how long it is retained.