Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management provides support for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Data Archiving.

ILM is process to address data management issues, with a combination of processes, policies, software and hardware so that the appropriate technology can be used for each phase of the lifecycle of the data. The lifecycle of data typically refers to the fact that the most recent data is active in the system and as time passes the data is accessed less frequently or not at all. The costs of storing data that are accessed infrequently can be reduced by moving the data to lower cost mass storage media. Typically this involves a trade-off between cost and increased access times. Based on business needs, data may eventually be archived and purged from the database and kept offline ready to be restored if required.

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