Tag Archives: ILM

Your Biggest IT Security Nightmare – Non-Production Data

Everyone is worried about data security and privacy as they should be; for data to be trusted, users and management need confidence in not just knowing that data is correct, but also in knowing that it is secure and that access is permitted only in controlled situations. There is no shortage of security disaster stories, [...]

Adding A Dash Of ILM And MDM To A Bowl Of ECM And SAN Soup Makes Data Governance Taste Good

What do you get when you combine Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and Storage Area Networks (SAN)? A compelling Data Management solution on a single purchase order that finally closes the gap on databases.  EMC announced this last week at EMC World 2010 that they will start reselling [...]

What Are Your Legacy Applications Costing You?

Has your application portfolio changed over the past 10 years? Have you migrated to newer systems and infrastructure to make your company more competitive? Has your organization gone through mergers or acquisitions where you ‘inherited’ additional applications? Over time, even though these applications may not be used to support current business processes, they are kept [...]

Information Stores That Persist Too Long

In a recent blog from Informatica’s Data Archive Product Manager, Claudia Chandra, she discusses the need for and the business value of retiring legacy applications.  This is another excellent topic on how to keep what you need and delete everything else. Purge what is not needed and reduce cost.  From a legal discussion perspective, The [...]

Does Database Archiving Fit In With Your Enterprise Content Management Strategy?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions have typically focused on managing electronic documents and unstructured content. What about structured data that is ‘locked up’ and traditionally retained indefinitely in your application databases? Can your existing ECM system help manage this content as well? Many people consider database content to be a completely different animal and not [...]