Most organisations are experiencing explosive growth in the amount of electronic data they retain, both to statisfy their own business requirements and also to satisfy the requirements of government and industry regulators (e.g. Inland Revenue record retention requirements, Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, etc.).

With the annual growth rates for databases tipped to exceed 125% (Meta Group), IT budgets will need to be significantly increased in order to store and manage all this data (in the U.S., a 23% increase in IT spend is forecast by IBM Global Services just to deal with regulatory compliance issues).

This explosion in the amount of stored data means:

• Application response times increase;
• Backups and restores are slower;
• Maintenance operations take longer (e.g. index rebuilds);
• Upgrades take longer.

The Effects of Data Growth

As part of a structured Information Lifecycle Management strategy, Palantir Systems can help you intelligently manage the growth in your relational data whilst leveraging the information that the data represents with the proven Enterprise Database Management solutions from Grid-tools.