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ILM

ALSO CALLED: Data Lifecycle Management, Information Life-Cycle Management, Lifecycles, Information Life Cycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management, Data Life Cycle Management, and Life Cycles
DEFINITION: Data life cycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an information system's data throughout its life cycle: from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted. DLM products automate the processes involved, typically organizing data into  … 
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Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering
sponsored by F5 Networks
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) holds tremendous promise for the enterprise, yet its adoption has been slowed by factors such as proprietary vendor approaches, complexity and lack of internal coordination amongst multiple business units...

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TOPICS:  Data Storage | ILM | NAS

Disaster Recovery FAQ
sponsored by CA
PODCAST:   Posted: 17 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 17 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: To help you get a deeper understanding on disaster recovery, this expert Podcast, featuring Pierre Dorion, explores the most common questions surrounding the topic. Download this Podcast to learn more.

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Business Process Management: Achieving Greater Process Automation
sponsored by ILOG, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper explains how a business rule management system (BRMS) can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage.

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Time-addressable and Event-addressable Storage: Combining Snapshots and Data Journaling for True Continuous Data Protection
sponsored by American Megatrends Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Apr 2008 | Published: 14 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Although there are many different ideas of what CDP is, it is clear that it must protect data in a manner that is both time-addressable and event-addressable. This white paper explains what this means and gives an overview of effective CDP ...

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Information Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Storage Performance and Protection Relevant to Data Value
sponsored by American Megatrends Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Apr 2008 | Published: 10 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: Data is the lifeblood of a business and information lifecycle management (ILM) helps to protect and manage this data. Read this white paper for a complete outline on ILM and discover how to create the most effective ILM strategy for your organization.

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Advanced Snapshot Technology: Flexibility, Protection, and Performance
sponsored by American Megatrends Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Apr 2008 | Published: 14 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: Data snapshots are rapidly being adopted as an industry-wide standard for protecting data with increasingly fine granularity. Read this white paper for a full outline on snapshot technologies and how to implement them into your storage environment.

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A Holistic Approach to Storage Resource Management
sponsored by Northern Parklife
VIDEOCAST:   Posted: 17 Mar 2008 | When: 17 Mar 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY: Managing storage is about managing space, people and time. This Videocast highlights a solution that provides the most effective means of managing the storage infrastructure and user data, no matter what the size of the network, workforce or IT staff is.

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CASE STUDY: CareGroup Healthcare System
sponsored by Akorri
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: BalancePoint is helping CareGroup manage application service levels, allowing the IT team to move away from volumetric capacity planning and turn to scenario modeling and "whatif" planning.

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File Archiving FAQ
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PODCAST:   Posted: 29 Feb 2008 | Premiered: 29 Feb 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
SUMMARY: Download this Podcast, featuring industry expert Greg Schulz, to get the answers to the most frequent questions he encounters regarding file archiving.

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The Growing Need for Content Addressable Storage (CAS)
sponsored by Nexsan Technologies
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: This white paper provides an outline of Content Addressable Storage (CAS) solutions - what they are, how they work and why they're needed. Read this white paper to learn how CAS can address your archiving, data protection and compliance challenges today.

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ILM DEFINITION (continued): …  separate tiers according to specified policies, and automating data migration from one tier to another based on those criteria. As a rule, newer data, and data that must be accessed more frequently, is stored on faster, but more expensive storage media, while less critical data is stored on cheaper, but slower media.

Hierarchical storage management (HSM) is one type of DLM product. The hierarchy represents different types of storage media, such as RAID (redundant array … 
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