INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AS SOLUTION FOR CONTINUOUS DATA AVAILABILITY
Paper presents and explains ways of using Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in order to enable continuous data availability and ensure accomplishing of business processes. It is stressed that ILM is not just technology, because ILM integrates business processes and IT in order to determine how data flows through an organization, enabling users and managers to manage data from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer needed. ILM involves all aspects of dealing with data, starting with user practices, rather than just automating storage procedures and enables more complex criteria for storage management than data age and frequency of access. In the paper is showed that ILM is solution that could offer resolving of main continuous data availability problems like the cost of managing storage, ineffective use of storage, storage growth related to data backup, replication, disaster recovery continuance and so on.