Proposal and Evaluation of Policy Description for Information Lifecycle Management

Information lifecycle management (ILM) is attracting more attention as the costs of data retention and security and of regulatory compliance requirements are being increased by the explosive growth of information being handled and by increasingly stringent government regulations. The goal of ILM is to ensure that information is stored on the most appropriate medium providing the service level required at the phase of the information's lifecycle. This paper describes a method for describing and interpreting ILM policies in a way that information managers find easy to understand and that can be used to automate the ILM process