February 19, 2006

HP Tests DB Archival Waters

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is spreading out into the database archiving market with the impending purchase of database archiving specialist Outerbay Technologies. The computer manufacturer is establishing its acquisition on the belief that database volumes will grow rapidly. Computer Wire reports:

OuterBay's software prunes databases of infrequently accessed data, moving older data to lower storage tiers in order to maximize application performance and reduce tier one capacity usage. Financial details of the purchase by HP were not revealed.

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