Last year Gartner published a report titled “Enterprise Information Archiving Transforms the Strategy and Approach for Archiving”, in it they forecasted that Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) will become a key infrastructure component and will hold both structured data and unstructured content by 2013. Quite a bold prediction at the time considering that Gartner also published a “Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA)” in 2010 as a direct replacement for their Email Active Archiving MQ which they have been publishing since 2002, in which the vendors listed did not offer any products which were designed for structured data archiving, let alone a single unified solution.
Thank you to Mike Vizard for publishing my guest blog post at CTOEdge. Please read the rest of the article at http://www.ctoedge.com/content/dream-reality-single-enterprise-archive-solution-big-data-retention