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Highlights
- Universal storage repository for all types of content, structured and unstructured, compliant or non compliant
- Provides up to three customizable information collections per IBM Information Archive
- Provides up to three information protection levels offering maximum flexibility
- Stores information via multiple access methods
- Scales up to 304 TB (Raw Capacity)
- Maintains data integrity until deletion is permitted by retention policy
- Enhanced security and protection with data encryption option
- Helps optimize storage consumption with data deduplication and compression features
- Offers low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by allowing use of mixed media (disk and tape)
- Increases data security through patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection feature
As you address your information retention needs: whether keeping valuable content for long periods of time, meeting industry retention regulations or addressing corporate governance, you need an archiving solution that is secure, scalable, but also cost-effective. IBM Information Archive, the next generation information retention solution is designed as an archiving repository for all types of content (structured or unstructured) to help organizations of any size address complete information retention needs—business, legal, or regulatory.
IBM Information Archive is designed to help you reduce cost, improve operational efficiency and manage risk, in the following ways:
Reduce cost
- Reduces disk capacity requirements with its built-in data deduplication and compression features
- Eliminates the need to maintain two separate platforms for structured and unstructured information.
- Reduces primary storage requirements by moving information to lower cost storage tiers, including tape.
- Single management point helps reduce the labor required to manage archived information.
- Ability to use a single repository that allows reduction of floor space and energy cost.
Improve operational efficiency
- Support of Industry standard interfaces and protocols minimize investments in information retention
- Ease of install and configuration enables quicker time-to-value
- Its single user interface and RAS footprint simplifies management of archived information
- Provides the flexibility to configure up to three separate information repositories (collections) within one IBM Information Archive
Manage risk
- Designed to help your business meet the most stringent information retention requirements.
- Provides a compliant storage repository (NENR, WORM, encryption).
- Increases protection through its new patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection feature.
Common features
- Scales up to 304 TB (raw capacity)
- Provides protected storage for data integrity and authenticity
- Non-erasable Non-rewriteable (NENR) data retention
- Write Once Read Many (WORM) data protection
- Provides three configurable information collections per Information Archive
- Offers a choice of information protection levels
- Stores information via multiple access methods:
- System Storage™ Archive Manager (SSAM) interface
- Industry-standard interfaces (NFS)
- Encryption
- Deduplication
- Compression
- Tiered Storage Repository
- Patent-Pending Enhanced Tamper Protection
Hardware summary
- 304 TB of maximum storage capacity (112 TB raw in the main rack & 192 TB raw in the Expansion rack)
- 1 Remote Support Managers server
- 1 KVM
- 1 Management Server
- 2 SMC switch
- 1 FC 10/100/1G
- 2 24 port Brocade
- FC Switches
- 1 Ingest/Retrieve (S2M server)
- Servers
- Disk Controllers
