Information life cycle, information value and data management

Abstract

Data volumes grow extremely fast. Storage capacity and cost can easily cope with that growth, but data access is critical. However, most information has a surprisingly short life cycle. This has a deep impact on data management systems and leads to a new storage architecture consisting of the two subsystems FileCache and Filestore with many advantageous properties w.r. to reliability, availability and cost. A multidimensional database of metadata is used to organize the data. This architecture is also suitable for complete multimedia biographies. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.