Network Computing is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Database Archiving Heats Up: Page 4 of 5

The exec explains that an automated database archiving product would make his life much easier: "Moving a couple of hundred Gbytes around can be a big challenge."

The other issue here is that key staff could leave the organization, taking critical skills out the door with them. "If you forget what you have done and new people take over, you have got a problem," says David Hill, principal of the Mesabi Group.

The trick is ensuring that you have the skills in place to deal with both the original database application and any new SQL queries that need to run on it. "Users have to make sure that they plan carefully for what they are doing [in the future]," says Hill.

Consider the Impact of ILM

The emergence of technologies such as Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), which enables IT managers to automatically shift their data onto less expensive forms of storage, is also putting database archiving in the spotlight. (See EMC Earnings Credit ILM Uptick, IBMs ILM 30th Anniversary, and HP Uses Softech Archive in ILM.)