Database Archiving Remains An Important Part Of Enterprise DBMS Strategy

Although database management system (DBMS) technology continues to advance, huge databases driven by enormous data volume growth are bringing major challenges in manageability, performance, availability, and security. Terabyte-size transactional databases are harder to manage, increase costs for hardware capacity and database licenses, and drive up requirements for database administrators (DBAs). Yet 85% of production data is inactive, so information and knowledge management professionals should devise a database archiving strategy that moves inactive data to lower-cost storage and servers, thus improving the manageability, performance, and security of critical production applications. The next challenge: As information-as-a-service (IaaS) adoption grows, enterprises will need archival strategies that accommodate integration of structured, unstructured, and semistructured data across active and inactive data repositories.