White Paper: The Ins And Outs Of Archiving

Many factors drive archiving. One of the biggest underlying trends is that organizations continue to accumulate significant amounts of semi-structured data, such as e-mail, and a lot of unstructured data in terms of files. Structured data is part of data bases and this information is accumulating. Companies have an excessive amount of data and an excessive number of relevant documents associated with that data – and this is creating problems for them. First of all, primary storage can be expensive, even if the medium is not expensive. By the time you replicate and back it up, it costs a great deal of money. In addition, one of the factors driving the need for archiving is that organizations are having difficulty understanding what they have and whether they can find it.