Practices that promote or preserve the shape of an entire
data infrastructure (e.g.,
network,
servers,
databases,
storage,
software). Data Infrastructure Hygiene essentially refers to any activity
that reduces the stress of information growth on the data infrastructure and
enables the efficient access, movement and protection of data while reducing
overall infrastructure and maintenance costs. Such practices include active
archiving of relational
databases,
e-mail archiving,
as well as
document archiving.
