Constantly growing volumes of corporate data and increasingly stringent regulatory mandates regarding data retention are driving up storage TCO — despite falling per unit costs for raw storage capacity. IT organizations therefore seek to control these costs by implementing database lifecycle management strategies that push less important/inactive “cold” data to lower-cost storage, while reserving more expensive, higher-performance storage for important/often-used “hot” data.

DBclassify enables highly effective execution of these cost reduction strategies in several ways. First, it radically reduces the time it takes to accurately assess data “temperature.” This allows you to implement a database lifecycle management strategies more quickly and cost-efficiently. Second, DBclassify keeps data usage classification up-to-date. This ensures that data can continuously be migrated to lower-cost storage media as appropriate. Third, DBclassify delivers rich insight into how data usage patterns change over time. This enables you to define storage management policies that accurately reflect that amount of time that data needs to be kept in the production database—so that the data can be automatically migrated to a less expensive storage tier at the appropriate time. All of these techniques can be used to significantly reduce storage infrastructure costs without impacting application performance.