> Between e-discovery and RIAA issues, retention times are probably shrinking > even though capacity for retention is growing.
Capacity for retention has grown but one still needs fast searching of data, or a few LEA requests on the same day or week will overflow your capacity to answer them. Disks are cheap, a good DW is not, for logs you probably need something in the middle. Simple tar-gzipping will get you crazy some day. Rubens