Data storage and processing system maintenance involves a large number of routine tasks such as data placement, disk space administration etc. Flows of information processed by data center are growing rapidly, so the effective data management becomes the critical task for IT managers.

That is why the "FLEX-Integration" company in its projects implements data storage and processing systems based on the ILM concept, which assures the efficiency of information management and allows to obtain the following advantages:

1. Reduce operating costs for data center owners. The proposed ILM-solutions allow to reduce the costs of data storage and processing systems maintenance and administrating. The reduction of 25-30% is achieved due to data classification use and multi-level storages deployment.

2. Reduce the number of redundant data. Minimization of information storage costs is achieved by de-duplication of files.

3. Accelerate data backup and recovery. ILM-solutions significantly increase the speed and reliability of data backup and restore processes. This is achieved by the use of multi-level storage systems.

4. Increase of information accessibility. ILM-solutions allow to improve accessibility of information with any level of "popularity" regardless of whether you use this information every day or once a quarter. This effect is achieved due to the use of active archiving. Such archiving allows you to move “unpopular” information from primary storage into the more cost-effective ones. But the possibility of prompt access to such data is retained.