New SERVICES Offering: Data Life Cycle Mentoring

While engaging with several clients in the last year we have noticed that their data volumes continue to grow exponentially. Data inside organizations is growing at a rate of 125% per year. This has two negative effects: Slower response times on applications and higher infrastructure costs for storage and server horsepower. One of the downfalls of our culture, think about your grandparent's basement, attic and/or garage, is that we NEVER want to throw anything away. So companies have gotten into the habit of procuring additional disk space iso taking a look a their data and determining what is still necessary.

In order to par down your data needs for a system you need to initiate a data analysis process (how many rows of data in what tables are how old?), working with your Business resources set timeline constraints as to when data is no longer 'actively needed, set up archiving and purge routines on data that model these timeline constraints. For those of you with a business that has to keep everything, forever... Suggest moving non-active data segments to less expensive storage solutions. Not everything has to be on High Availability Storage Arrays. You can suggest using slower, less redundant solutions for previously archived data. That way the data is online and available to them should they choose to go back and look at order history from 2004 but it's on the $/GB solution not hte $$$/GB solution. Additionally if you can implement an archive and purge solution on your transactional systems they will PERFORM much better and your user community will be happier.

Zombie Data is launching a new Service offering "Data Life Cycle Mentoring" to work with you and your company to outline what is critical active data and what can be cataloged or archived? What is your company's true requirements? Can you archive and purge data? Archive and move to less expensive infrastructure?