I’m not going to bore you with another introduction to Information Lifecycle Management. Odds are you’ve already read one of the dozens of articles that have appeared in major storage industry publications.

While the term Information Lifecycle Management is relatively new, many of the underlying concepts have been with us for quite some time. Most notable is the idea of managing information from inception to deletion, an idea central to the ILM philosophy, which has existed as part of the document/content/digital asset management¹ mantra for well over ten years. (more…)

If you’ve fallen into the trap of thinking of databases as “structured” information, and files as “unstructured” information, you’re not alone.

That misleading binary categorization—structured or unstructured information—can be attributed to hundreds of presentations, research reports, and magazine articles prepared by people who simply do not understand the complexity of today’s information assets. (more…)