Storage Resource Management
Information Lifecycle Management
The Information Lifecycle
Three Stages
Creation/ Publication/
Acquisition Use
Retention/
Removal
All information, or data, in a storage network has a specific lifecycle, from the
time the information enters an organization’s system to the time it is archived
or removed from the system. There are three stages in the information
lifecycle:
Creation and/or acquisition of the data.
Publication and use of the data.
Retention or removal of the data.
Some information must be archived for later use, and some
information has a finite purpose and can be discarded when it is no
longer valuable to the organization.