An effective ILM implementation can significantly streamline costs and management efficiencies. IT organizations can actually use ILM processes to more effectively implement CRM and ERP solutions, ensuring that critical data is given top-priority storage resources and is always available.

ILM solves key problems such as ineffective storage utilization, the costs of managing storage, and the ability to manage storage growth surrounding data replication, disaster recovery/business continuance, and backup. This is particularly relevant in India, where IT departments and CIO's are faced with the challenge of optimum utilization of available storage resources and would want to maintain a tight leash on IT spending.

In India, the concept of ILM is catching up with various corporate and large users. Since ILM is in a concept stage, the first step is to define ILM internally. Here again, ILM definitions could defer dramatically between various organizations and hence the implementation. Various enterprises are now devising policies for data protection and are seriously looking at storage solutions that come along with data protection and disaster recovery strategies.

Source: NetApp