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Database Archiving Heats Up: Page 5 of 5

IDC warns that archiving is barely addressed by many database users. At the moment, many users are simply leaving unused data in their databases indefinitely. This scenario is extremely problematic because it wastes storage capacity, and could prove expensive in the long term.

ILM, of course, poses its own set of challenges to users. IT managers at the recent Data Protection Summit, for example, warned that not even the big-name ILM vendors such as EMC and HP have a silver bullet that can handle all of their data management woes. (See Users Shatter Storage Myths.)

One user, Eliot Kagan, systems engineer at24 Hour Fitness, which owns 400 fitness clubs across the U.S., recently urged CIOs to take this issue into their own hands, setting careful values for data before they send it off into archives.

— James Rogers, Senior Editor Byte and Switch

  • Applimation Inc.
  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)
  • IDC
  • Mesabi Group LLC
  • Princeton Softech Inc.
  • Solix Technologies Inc.
  • VMware Inc.