Data Archiving
Who chooses data archiving, and why
Data archiving is essential for organizations that accumulate new information but still need to retain older information. The trends of corporate and agency policy, legal precedent, and government law and regulation are for longer retention, more information, and faster retrieval. Automated data archiving helps organizations achieve these capabilities at lower costs.
How data archiving works
Organizations set their own policies for qualifying data to be moved into archive. These policy settings are used to automate the process of identifying and moving the appropriate data into the archive system. Once in the archive system, the information remains online and accessible. The original content is preserved to ensure complete, reliable integrity for the life of the archived information.
Benefits of data archiving
Automating the data archiving process and using purpose-built archive systems makes production systems run better, uses less resources, and reduces overall storage costs. Production performance is unaffected by information growth. Backup and recovery runs faster, disaster recovery is less costly, and the systems are easier to manage. Data moved into archive is stored at much lower cost.
