Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Oracle Introduces Free ILM Assistant

Oracle has wheeled out the Oracle Information Lifecycle Management Assistant (Oracle ILM Assistant), a tool to provide customers with a range of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) capabilities for Oracle Database 10g.

With an increasing amount of information in the enterprise, organisations are required to store vast amounts of data for extended periods of time to meet new regulatory data retention and protection requirements. A recent study of members of the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) found that 92 per cent of respondents expect their database storage needs to increase in 2007. To meet this growth, 64 per cent of respondents said they would increase their spending on storage in 2007.

"Effective ILM is one of the key challenges organisations face today," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle.

Oracle ILM Assistant is available free of charge to all Oracle Database Enterprise Edition users and is downloadable from the Oracle Technology Network here.