BANGALORE, INDIA: According to industry analysts, enterprise databases are growing at the rate of 125 percent annually. Even more interesting is that as much as 80 percent of the information in those databases is not actively used (in other words, it is ready for archiving).

Data archiving industry in India
Today’s IT department faces many challenges. A never-ending flood of email, PST folders and files are driving storage costs up. Backup windows are shrinking.

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Since application performance and scaling is so critical, the management of all of this information is just much more difficult. Proactive archiving reduces business risks, lower costs and increases efficiency.

With business information growing exponentially and unstructured data posing a severe challenge, organizations are looking to invest in information management solutions that will help them unlock and harness the value of their information while addressing issues around archival and compliance.

Archiving helps in automating movement and retention of unstructured information to improve performance, scale, and manageability of applications while reducing risk and costs associated with providing transparent end-user access and efficient e-discovery and optimizing storage.

Importance of data archiving
While back-up offers safeguards against unexpected data loss and application errors, archiving is the process of systematically saving copies of unstructured files (e.g. email) to reduce primary storage, manage retention and enable the discovery of information on a per item basis.

E-mail has become as mission-critical as any other IT system in a country like us. As a result, organizations are evaluating their overall policies and systems for managing email, and IT professionals are being called on to address the most common email management concerns, including resource management, retention management, and discovery management.

Enterprises are evaluating or using e-mail archiving software solutions to manage these issues. With these systems, IT can control the growth in e-mail storage costs while giving end users email storage and search in a more user-friendly manner and providing legal departments a consistent system for retaining and finding e-mails.

While these systems simplify the issues of archive storage size, archive retention period, and archive search, they do not make them disappear.