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Store and forget attitude costs millions as demand for access to historical data grows and business risk increases.

London, 20th August 2008 – According to a new report by analysts Forrester Research, businesses are exposing themselves to increasing operational risk and costs because of inadequate database archiving strategies. Archive store specialists Clearpace say that this adds to an increasing body of evidence that shows it is critical that IT managers place the same priority on the long term retention and retrieval of structured data, as they do on managing email and document archives.

Report highlights include:
• 50% annual growth is reported in online transactional data and repositories
• 27% of enterprises surveyed have 50 or more terabyte production databases
• 64% of enterprises surveyed have over half of their databases on costly tier 1 storage
• 20% of data centre infrastructure spend is to support data growth

An interesting article highlighting that not only does the amount of data we create/store cause issues from a capacity planning, a data storage standpoint; it also creates issues in compliance and data security. Manging the data growth, decommissioning data and organizing it within your organization therefore becomes not only an IT thing, a buy more storage issue, but one of compliance, of data security and energy efficiency. How much storage needs to be instantly accessible ‘online’ within your organization. How much of this data could be ‘temporarily archived’, made available within agreed time frames, 30 minutes, a few hours etc.

There are different types of data:

• User data
• Batch data
• Temporary market data
• Transaction data

What different data forms do you have and how accessible do they need to be, how important are they to the organization, do we need to back the data up and for how long do we need to retain it. Do we need to backup transactional data?  Can we be more efficient in terms of the data we use, the data we retain on backups and the technologies we use for backing the data up?

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