Overcoming database management challenges

[22 April 2005] - Today, companies face two main challenges when it comes to their databases: ongoing growth and complexity. In fact, some analysts believe that databases will so much as double in size in the next few years.

Unfortunately, this growth impacts the IT department's ability to manage the database in terms of performance, administration, and backup and recovery. Needless to say, complexity is also increasing with this growth spurt - the one feeds off the other.

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