Information Lifecycle Management and Tiered Architecture
Without question, data is the lifeblood of business today. Yet, not all data is equally valuable to your company, nor is all data equally valuable at every point in its lifecycle. Historically, many organizations have chosen to install storage at the highest common denominator, but this practice can quickly become expensive and overly complex.
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and tiered architecture solutions can help you maximize your existing storage resources and improve your return on investment by reserving high-performance equipment for the workloads where it is truly needed. ILM strategies help you align the business value of information with the most appropriate and cost-effective IT infrastructure from the time that information is conceived through its final disposition. Often, this alignment involves moving different types of data to the lowest-cost storage device possible based on protection, performance, availability and recovery requirements. Rather than wasting valuable primary storage space on documents that have not been accessed for months or even years, ILM strategies help you migrate those documents to less-expensive second- or third-tier storage devices.
By implementing an ILM/Tiered Architecture solution with Agilysys, you can expect to:
Reduce your total cost of ownership
Match data needs with data storage attributes, improving access to information
Improve your ability to manage information, retaining or deleting content based on specific business rules
Provide the foundation for an enterprise content management strategy
Reduce backup windows
Drawing upon proven best practices, extensive experience, industry-leading products and customer input, Agilysys designs an ideal solution for your specific business needs. Coupled with Agilysys services, we offer preeminent ILM and tiered storage tools from the following partners: