Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
ILM or Information Lifecycle Management has been surrounded by a lot of marketing hype but Alpha believes the core principals should be the basis for any data management strategy.
SNIA the Information Technology and Information Storage industries, (www.snia.org ) provides the following definition to Information Lifecycle Management (ILM):
Information Lifecycle Management comprises the policies, processes, practices, and tools used to align the business value of information with the most appropriate and cost effective IT infrastructure from the time information is conceived through its final disposition.
Information is aligned with business processes through management policies and service levels associated with applications, metadata, information, and data.
Put simply ILM is a strategy to streamlining business operations with the ability to manage information from creation to disposal, e-mail archival, file system archival while obtaining maximum business value from data at minimum cost.
ILM is a tactical element to achieving compliance to the increasing legislation regarding what, how long and in what format data must be kept.
Alpha provides customised solutions to meet your specific organisational requirements. Following a tried and tested approach Alpha will design and implement the solution using the following best practice process:
- Discovery of storage and data assets.
- Classify data according to business requirements.
- Create lifecycle management policies.
- Ensure support for multiple data types.
- Reduce storage management.
- Revue operational efficiencies.
- Consolidate storage.
- Provide a customised best-of-breed solution.
- Ensure key regulations are complied with.
- Regularly test that your organisation can rapidly locate and retrieve data.