Many companies experience exponential growth in their data storage needs when the business grows to meet demand or absorbs additional data due to acquisition. The database administrator must be informed when these business decisions occur to appropriately plan for growth of the database. Some growth is warranted, but in most cases much of data stored can be archived out of the database and put on backup media. For information that is not directly related to current production requirements, one option is to use a secondary machine with available disk space. The secondary machine can serve as both secondary storage for archival data and as a development or replication server. When you move data that is not mission-critical off the production machine to another location, you can employ less expensive disks on the archival side and more expensive disks for production use.