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Don’t Forget The Legacy Applications After Data Center Consolidation

As part of their cost cutting program, organizations are consolidating data centers and the applications within them.   Federal and state agencies in the public sector are among those where IT consolidation and moving applications to the cloud are top priorities as part of an overall goal to increase efficiencies and eliminate costs.  In other industries, [...]

Time To Clean Out Your Data Closet

It is that time of year for some to reflect on the past or ponder the future.  If part of your end of year ritual includes cleaning out a cluttered closet or room in the house, consider the same ritual for the data in your databases.

ILM For Data Warehouses

In December, 2005 Sun Microsystems conducted an interview with Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept.  He said, “ILM keeps a data warehouse from costing huge amounts of money and maintains good performance consistently throughout the data warehouse environment.”  Four years later, the average size of a data warehouse has increased by 200%, surpassing [...]

Application ILM And Data Governance Go Hand In Hand – Part 2

Information LifeCycle Management (ILM) involves classifying data to map its business value to the corresponding features of the infrastructure it resides on.  This classification enables IT to appropriately build tiered infrastructure based on what the business needs, not based on the latest technology trends.  Benefits of an ILM solution include lower cost of storage, better [...]