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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 [...]