Thursday, June 14, 2007

Hoarding and ILM

There is another approach to hoarding - just let it be! It is less of a problem if a few conditions are met, as I described before in some other posts. The conditions are as follows:
  • If all information is kept in an open digital format

  • If there is an open security model (i.e. only really confidential information is stored under lock and key)

  • If there is plenty of disk space (which is cheap today)

  • And if there is a powerful search engine

Than you can make it work. But this is easier said than done, since managing large volumes of information needs some sophisticated technologies supporting optimal storage, supporting fast backup and effective restore, and it needs to be able to recognise versions of the same information.

Some hardware vendors like HP and EMC are now exploring this space and are coming up with so call ILM solutions (information lifecycle management). These are not just powerful storage servers, but 'intelligent' solutions, since they come with software that enable the optimal storage. The HW vendors see it is a way to get higher up the value chain and companies can benefit from this aim, since the hardware in the company becomes more valuable, since it is managed in a more intelligent way - win-win.

It sounds all promising, but at the same time there are no silver bullets, so I expect that ILM solutions only have the potential to work if they are accompanied by a lot of consultancy and a lot of drive within the company to make the implementations work.

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