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Why have storage management and information lifecycle management (ILM) become such hot topics? Data storage environments continue to grow at a rapid pace. The figures vary depending on the source but, generally speaking, industry analysts predict that external storage system capacity growth (Terabytes shipped) will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 60%. At the same time, IT budgets and headcount remain relatively flat. Organizations are faced with the dual challenge of optimizing their storage infrastructure while at the same time meeting the increasingly stringent business requirements placed on the stored information. In this paper we look at how these two challenges must be addressed together, and in fact how the definition of storage management must be expanded to consider the business driven lifecycle demands placed on stored information.
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