Date & Time:  Wednesday, August 8, 2007 - 10:15 AM

When it comes to ILM and data archiving, e-mail (semi-structured) and file-level (unstructured) data are usually the first data types IT organizations target. But the most critical data - and often a large percentage of data - resides in databases (structured). In many enterprises, up to 80% of database data is over two years old and is no longer needed for daily business activity. Yet this inactive data, like the 20% of database storage that is active, is stored on expensive, high-end disk arrays. In addition to the high costs of primary disk storage required for aged OLTP and CRM data, ever-expanding databases require extra database servers, extra backup servers, longer backup and recovery windows, and more backup storage. Not to mention that database performance degrades significantly as database size grows, impacting application response times and end user service levels. For today's mission critical database environment a database archiving strategy and solution is a necessity. In this session you hear from HP how implementation of a database archiving strategy resolves the “ripple” effect by controlling database growth, and dramatically improving performance and reliability while reducing overall cost of ownership.

Instructor

• Thomas Wuerz, Marketing Program Manager RIM for DB, HP