Lifecycle Management Drives Data Management's Evolution From Art to Science

摘要

Data management, as we know it today, is evolving from art to science as technology is catching up to business demand and the value of data continues to increase. Currently, though, the elements of data management persist as flexible art forms. Historically, the need for what came to be called data management started more than 30 years ago, as business demand for storing and recovering data from a disaster became more and more prevalent. At that time, businesses were focused on simply moving data off of mainframes and onto storage devices (primarily tape drives) in an effort to secure the information in the event of power loss or data corruption.