{"id":1064,"date":"2010-03-10T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-03-10T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:00:49","slug":"storage-tiering-data-storage-using-ilm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-tiering-data-storage-using-ilm\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage:  Tiering Data Storage using ILM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) can an important component of\u00a0 an organization&#8217;s storage strategy. ILM can help organizations meet their regulatory compliance requirements, shrink data storage redundancies, and to more cost-effectively store data.<\/p>\n<p>The key to creating an ILM system is to be able to define and implement a process that can continuously evaluate priorities of the data that is being stored.\u00a0 Critical and\u00a0 frequently accessed content should be prioritized high so that data can be retrieved quickly, whereas the response time for lower priority data need not be as fast.<\/p>\n<p>In an ILM system, data is moved from storage tier to storage tier as the priority criteria for the data changes.\u00a0 High-level storage media is media that is both optimized in hardware and software to be the fastest and most responsive storage.\u00a0 Mid-level storage is cheaper, although with slower data access speeeds, and Low-level storage is the cheapest storage available, but which will has the slowest response.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1063\" alt=\"Data Tiered for usage with ILM\" src=\"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/StorageTiers.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The principle of ILM is that as data is accessed less frequently, it generally loses its value to the organization, and eventually becomes a candidate to be shifted to less-expensive and less-powerful storage.\u00a0 Eventually, depending on retention and lifecycle rules, data may be migrated completely out of the system, either by purging it or by moving it to a tape or long-term archival system.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Vining at IBM <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"IBM Storage Requirements\" href=\"http:\/\/www.processor.com\/editorial\/article.asp?article=articles\/p3203\/22p03\/22p03\/22p03.asp&#038;guid=&#038;searchtype=&#038;WordList=&#038;bJumpTo=True\">said <\/a>that \u201cif you can reduce the amount of data that you are actively storing and managing, you can reduce the amount of storage capacity you need and therefore the amount of power needed to run it.\u00a0 ILM is an important strategy to help achieve this goal.\u00a0 By setting policies on where to store data and for how long, you can automatically move a large percentage of overall data to secondary storage (including tape, which uses much less power than disk) and even delete it, eliminating power requirements altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"gwProxy\" \/><!--Session data--><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\" \/>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fstorage-tiering-data-storage-using-ilm%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div 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