Information management: managing information by business
value throughout its lifecycle |
Managing information has become increasingly challenging due to
regulatory pressures, legal discovery requirements, and corporate
governance issues. Administrators must determine and enforce the
appropriate policies for how and where documents are stored, who has
access, what may be edited or printed, how long information must be
retained, and when it must be deleted.
Complicating matters further is the fact that both the way information
is used and its business value vary over time. As a consequence,
requirements for performance, availability, reliability, and privacy
of the underlying storage system must change, as well. To address
these issues, businesses are increasingly turning to multi-tier
storage systems that provide differently priced levels of performance
and availability according to the value of the information being
stored.
Researchers in HP Labs are exploring several paths to addressing these
information lifecycle management challenges. Focus areas include:
- Automating file classification based on data mining techniques,
file access patterns and semantic techniques
- Specifying information management requirements from multiple
sources, including the business process usage of information
- Translating high-level requirements into choices for the
appropriate underlying storage tiers
- Monitoring the storage system to detect and correct violations of
these requirements
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