Information Lifecycle Management

Information Lifecycle Management or ILM is more than just data storage and drive management. ILM encompasses how data is used and focuses on the efficiency of data retrieval both on a daily level and as part of system recovery efforts. Telesto Group works with CIOs to define data governance policies and develop the technical practices to support them.

Why Care About Information Lifecycle Management?

Given the relatively low price of storage hardware and actual costs of storage media for application servers, companies frequently do not consider removing redundant or extraneous data from their every-day systems. What about the cost of handling the data. Programs chug along sifting through terabytes of data while employees take another coffee break in the hopes that when they return their reports will be ready. IT personnel run programs for days to make a copy of Production so that a new program can be tested. The cost, in short, is productivity.

Think about how much data exists that is rarely or never touched. If an audit were performed of the business processes enabled by SAP, a staggering number of unexpected documents would exist relating to a single transaction. Are all these documents utilized regularly? Do they contain information that is needed at the proper level of summarization? The answers to these questions are costing you more than you think.

Telesto Group helps clients analyze their business processes from a data generation point of view finding out what data gets duplicated and streamlining processes to use only one data source. Our methodology leads to the determination of which data is never accessed or is too detailed. Telesto helps to aggregate or archive the data. When it comes to making copies of Production, no one compares to Telesto Group's expertise in making "smart" copies of only what is needed be it for Master Data, Time-Based, Business-Based or Configuration specific requirements.