IBM Information Archive - The Next Generation Information Retention Solution

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Highlights

• A storage repository for all types of content
• Enables customers to index and search archived information
• Offers flexibility in retaining information through its unique “collections” architecture and choice of protection options
• Offers up to 608 TB of raw disk capacity and petabytes with external tape*
• Helps optimise storage capacity with data deduplication and compression features
• Offers low total cost of ownership by allowing use of mixed media (disk, tape and virtual tape)
• Maintains information integrity and authenticity and increases its security through a patent-pending enhanced tamper protection feature

The explosive growth of information and the increased focus on regulatory compliance are compounding the need to retain and protect business-critical information. Clients need an archiving and retention solution that is secure, scalable and cost-effective. IBM Information Archive is a simple and flexible archiving solution to help organisations of all sizes address their complete information retention needs—business, legal or regulatory.

IBM Information Archive is designed to help you reduce cost, improve operational efficiency and manage risk.

Cost Reduction

• Reduces disk capacity requirements with built-in data deduplication, compression and hierarchal storage management features
• Eliminates the need to maintain two separate platforms for structured and unstructured information
• Reduces tier-one storage requirements by moving information to lower-cost storage tiers, including tape
• Utilises a single management point to help reduce the labor required to manage archived information
• Helps reduce time and cost required to locate files with its index and search function
• Can use a single archive platform for multiple lines of business (LOBs), allowing reduction of floor space and energy costs

Improve operational efficiency

• Provides the flexibility to configure up to three separate information collections (virtual archives) within one Information Archive, reducing the need of additional storage to archive information with different retention needs
• Enables users and administrators to locate archived data quickly, saving labor time and costs
• Supports industry-standard interfaces and protocols for easy installation and configuration
• Simplifies management of archived information with a single web-based user interface

Manage risk

• Designed to help your business meet the most stringent information retention requirements
• Helps provide a compliant storage repository that offers protection against inadvertent deletion or alteration