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Sybase Inc. and Quest Software Inc. are each readying data replication and archiving products to help enterprises fight the battle of the bulge in their databases.
Such tools are critical, as unmanaged data growth has caused performance and operational inefficiencies in production databases. For example, global investment management company T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. routinely weighs the costs and benefits of keeping a large amount of data in its active database versus transferring some data to an archive.
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