Maximize Lifecycle Management

Know What You Have, What Needs To Be Saved & What You Can Purge

The amount of data a company stores can quickly get out of hand, with virtual machines, videos, sound files, and document files mushrooming to occupy the available space. Although the cost of storage continues to drop, the danger is that the low price makes buying additional storage the easy decision, but not necessarily the right one.

Even with the falling price of storage media, the cost is higher to the enterprise, because the more storage an enterprise has, the more risk there is from e-discovery and regulatory compliance, the longer searches take, and the more costly it is for data centers to delete the data in the future. Storage lifecycle management is critical to make the most efficient use of current resources and will forestall the need, at least temporarily, to add additional storage. Data experts recommend the following tips to enhance the lifecycle management of storage.

Implement A Storage Strategy

“You have to determine how long you keep information and how long you keep it at a high level,” says Dan Leary, vice president of marketing for Nimble Storage (www.nimblestorage.com). “Keeping data on disks or even tapes is prohibitively expensive. . . . You should get rid of data aggressively.”

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Source: processor.com
By: Phil Britt