Information Lifecycle Management

POLICY

ILM Policy consists of the overarching storage and information policies that drive management processes. Policies are dictated by business goals and drivers. Therefore, policies generally tie into a framework of overall IT Governance and Management ; Change Control processes; requirements for system availability and recovery times; and service level agreements ( SLA )

MANAGEMENT

Information Management consists of the practices that facilitate operational storage management. These include the principles that guide ILM; the storage management tools and practices; database management practices; system performance and Monitoring ; system Configuration ; Capacity Planning ; and business controls. Business controls generally include chargeback, costing and P&L-related metrics.

OPERATIONAL

Operational aspects of ILM include backup and data protection; Disaster Recovery , restore, and restart; archiving and long-term retention; data replication; and day-to-day processes and procedures necessary to manage a storage architecture.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure facets of ILM include the Logical and Physical architectures; the Applications dependent upon the storage platforms; Security of storage; and Data Center constraints. Within the application realm, the relationship between applications and the Production , Test , and Development requirements are generally most relevant for ILM.

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