Whitepapers

Information Lifecycle Management

As is pointed out in the text of this white paper, one of the biggest mistakes an organization can make in implementing an ILM strategy is to center the discussion on infrastructure, not business or policy.

"For better or worse, IT administrators have had primary, if not sole, responsibility for managing, protecting, storing, and even leveraging corporate data throughout the enterprise. Business executives, meanwhile, have set their sights more narrowly on day-to-day survival tactics (e.g., lining up new business investments and making necessary process changes), which have included few, if any, data management issues. While the division of corporate IT and corporate business has been occurring in organizations nationwide for years, the increasing value, quantity, and complexity of data today makes it impractical at best, costly at worst, for organizations to continue such practices in the future. In fact, many industry experts agree that the potential costs of doing nothing (i.e., keeping IT and business objectives separate) are far higher than the actual costs of investing in a process that can help enterprises begin to align IT goals with business objectives for the betterment of the organization."