Databases Getting Larger Than Ever - Dangerous Implications of Excessive Data Growth Reported
Enterprise databases have almost grown much larger than their owners could even fathom. Like in an obese person, instead of too many carbohydrates, it’s a regular diet of indigestible and wasteful transactional data that causes database obesity. This causes serious after-effects on database health, such as decreasing disk space, poor processing performance and extreme slow access rates or queries timing out, causing irritation among users.
Running an overweight database is a cumbersome option, along with data purging - which is not practiced with the same importance today. In data purging, recovery has to be performed manually and is extremely time-consuming. Database archiving is preferred by some of the organizations though, with successful results. Some solutions also help to create relationships and pre-defined rules which aid in the archiving of critical data.
According to Meta Group Inc. and many other research firms, data is growing at a rate of 125% per year, yet more than 80% of this data remains inactive in production systems, thus crippling performance. To redress this problem, enterprises are initiating various solutions for the retention of more data for longer periods of time. Also, many IT managers are looking for different consolidation techniques which can compress data to a more manageable level.
The legal implications of not pursuing data retention in enterprises for a proposed period of time can create huge problems. Additionally there are the needs of the company as it also needs the rare referential data for use at some point of time or another. Apart from the problem of depleting disk space, companies have reported problems such as total system outages during the processing in the database. Problems also include backup failures when there’s huge data to be backed up and time-out of transactions while scouring through millions and millions of records.
According to analysts at ByteandSwitch.com, management of backup and data recovery of the database in today’s environment is a challenging proposition with a plethora of business requirements and needs to be taken care of. The volume of data is spurting doubly every year, forcing enterprises to shell out part of their financial resources for additional hardware and database software licenses.
Analysts agree that with the growth of technology and its advancement, enterprises are better equipped to meet retention requirements. Database archiving is the most suggested solution for helping in data management and for fulfilling data retention requirements. According to them, database archiving and purging solutions like that of Indusa’s ArchivePlus, which are long term solutions, are needed by large enterprises to save on their data management costs and solve their problems.
Hemal Shrimanker - Business Development Executive at Indusa Technical Corp.
Indusa Technical Corp. is an SEI - CMM Level 4, ISO - 9001:2000; ISO - 27001 Certified, 150+ people Custom Software/Web Development and IT Consulting Company. We have been providing services since 1989.
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