First the positive words:
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a great way to dig into data-management, partitioning, and serious considerations about your datamodel.
You should always do ILM, in one form or another.
However .... ,
The term is now being hijacked by the Marketing Departments of Storage- System-, Database-, application-, ETL-, and just about any other FUD-touting vendor.
Oracle is also promoting ILM. They even provide an ILM (gui-)tool for free.
Why?
Well, ILM relies on Partitioning, and Partitioning is ... licensed. Ka-Tching.
If you go down the ILM route, the usual disclaimers apply:
- use at own risk.
- RTFM (...) please.
- proceed with extreme caution.
But it will be a good learning experience and as a buzzword, ILM looks good on your CV.
Hence vendors in various layers of the stack (disk/storage, database, ETL, business-intelligence, compliance, architects, consultancy etc...) all try to sell ILM "solutions" (e.g. ILM-slower/older-disks, ILM-partitioning, ILM-extract-tools, ILM-methodologies, ILM-audits, ILM-patterns, ILM-best-practices, ...)
If you like bling and flash, and good entertainment, this is where you should be in the next months : Ai, El, and Em - ILM.
Quite fun to see:
The trainees, the D-division, and all other abitious employees are sent out to promote this TLA. Expect lots of seminars, catered-food and drinkies...
And some of it looks ok, credible even. Like I said: Every good datamodel should have some ILM in it. Its just that we used to call it "archiving" (=boring) or "cleansing" (sounds like washroom sanitation maintenance dunnit ?).
ILM is definitely the way to go. Unless you can spot TNT coming (The Next TLA) ...
I'm waiting for the bang.
13 hours ago
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