This InforWorld article, entitled
A Rationale for ILM, on ILM is nothing more than a weak attempt to perpetuate the fizzling ILM story. Don't get me wrong. I believe ILM is very important, yet extremely difficult to do today. The article is 12 paragraphs long. The first four paragraphs tell us how easy it is to set up a SAN these days. Five more paragraphs tell us how tape backups today don't fit into the ILM model. The remaining three paragraphs tell us an "ice age" in the industry is coming if we don't adopt ILM and point us to other sources that define ILM. There was no rationale in this article other than some pseudo-strategic swipes at how data needs to be classified for tools to automatically determine the most cost effective storage for a particular data type.
