In a recent survey by Forrester Research, data within large enterprises was found to be growing at more than 50% per annum and 75% of respondents stated that they were managing 10 or more databases of at least 1 terabyte. The size and growth of these large production databases is causing serious application performance and storage challenges.

Many organizations expend more effort in upgrading, tuning and maintaining production systems than addressing the root cause of these problems by archiving historical data. In many large enterprises 85% of production data is comprised of inactive records and with many application databases residing on expensive tier one infrastructure, the costs of managing inactive data in this environment are significant and unnecessary.

Clearpace and HP recognize that application archiving solutions need to advance from only considering how to select and move inactive data from production systems to encompass specialized archive repositories that minimize storage consumption while ensuring data integrity, security and availability. Read this whitepaper to understand the 6 R's of application archiving and how it can reduce storage and operational costs.