The globalized business world needs to meet the demands of techno savvy customers to stay ahead in an aggressively competitive market. The IT organizations play a major role in helping the business houses and corporate sectors meet these targets.

1. ILM Solutions: Efficient Management Solutions For Data Centers
The globalized business world needs to meet the demands of techno savvy customers to stay ahead in an
aggressively competitive market. The IT organizations play a major role in helping the business houses
and corporate sectors meet these targets. However, in the bargain, the IT organizations also face a
number of challenges such as global competition to meet efficient operations, use of cloud based services
for business flexibility and a weak economy resulting in a slow business growth.
Studies have shown that the major hindrance towards high efficiency level of most of the IT organizations
is the Data centers. These data centers, which serve as the major source of information for most of the
business houses, have huge growth of data volumes. This data explosion not only pressurizes the
budgetary expense of the organization to provide for storage alternatives, but also drastically affects the
scope to improve application performance by reducing it to nearly 50% in case of enterprise applications
such as ERP and CRM.
As Gartner estimates, nearly 10% of applications are candidates for retirement, but these linger on, as the
data is required for compliance and internal business analysis. These applications along with the Test and
QA applications, database clones and its related data affects the performance of the IT organization by
· Delays the retrieval and restoration of data in case of disaster recovery requirements.
· Drains the IT budgets through the expensive hardware requirement, professional man-
hours, besides the valuable resources of the data centers and power consumption.
· Data leaks through loss of non-productive databases.
However, IT organizations need to look at these challenges as opportunities to deploy the best
information lifecycle management solutions. The data management strategies along with the ILM
tools will help the organizations swim through the problems of managing data explosion and budgetary
constraints. The best of the breed ILM solutions include:
· Data archiving techniques of structured data bases- wherein archived data would preserve all
context, vital for ERP, CRM, trend analysis or compliance audits.
· Application archives and retiring obsolete applications as a part of application portfolio
management
· Efficient database management solution of cloning and testing data such as automated and single-
pass cloning, data masking and encryption which would ensure there is no wastage of IT resources.
These best of the breed ILM solutions are effective in meeting the requirements of any modern data

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