Every organization today must provide fast access to vast amounts of enterprise data for their customers, partners, and business users. As a result the volume of information is constantly increasing, leading to the information explosion that many enterprises are experiencing. This white paper explains how by partitioning databases based on the lifecycle of the information and compressing historical data, IT departments can reduce their dependency on high-end storage, reduce their incremental storage costs, keep more data online for longer periods of time, and improve the performance of applications that access large databases.