The IBM System Storage™ DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and protecting business critical information with operational efficiency.
Supported by IBM and non–IBM enterprise content–management applications, IBM System Storage DR550 is designed to provide a secure, scalable and cost–effective information retention solution for all kinds of data.
Archiving with the IBM System Storage DR550 can help companies:
Address their data growth challenges by retaining inactive business data in a cost-effective, secure repository
Manage data throughout its life cycle, supporting data retention, data security and end–of–life destruction
Reduce the cost of storing data over the long-term through the usage of multiple low–cost storage tiers (disk, tape, optical)
Increase operational efficiency
Address regulatory, non–regulatory data retention requirements
Award–winning, industry–proven
Data Protection Summit—Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)—Best of Show, 2007
AIIM (The Enterprise Content Management Association)—Best in Show, 2005, 2006
Highlights
Repository for all kinds of content—structured and unstructured
Policy-based and event-based data management protects information against intentional or accidental deletions or modifications
Maintains data as non-erasable and non-rewritable until deletion is permitted by retention policy
Scales up to 224 TB with disk and petabytes with attached tape
Offers low TCO by using multiple storage tiers (disk, tape, optical) within an archive
Enhanced security and protection with disk and tape encryption options
Deletion Hold feature to retain content for legal or audit reasons
Supports major archiving applications
Award winning and industry proven
The IBM System Storage DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and protecting business critical information with operational efficiency.
The DR550 is designed to provide advanced storage management technology to enable the management and enforcement of data retention policies. It is well suited for archiving a broad range of electronic records, including e–mail, digital images, database applications, instant messages, account records, contracts, insurance–claim documents and other types of storage records. The DR550’s policy–based, archive data retention capabilities are designed to support non–erasable, non–rewritable data storage and help address the needs of regulated industries and other businesses with long-term data retention and protection requirements. The optional DR550 File System Gateway offers file based archiving with the DR550 and is designed to provide an NFS and CIFS file system interface to applications.
Data encryption for enhanced security
Enabling companies to protect their data when transmitted over the network or saved to disk or to tape, DR550 encryption can provide enhanced security for businesses via 128–bit AES or 56–bit DES encryption technology. Encryption options also allow the DR550 to manage encryption keys transparent to the application or allow an application to manage encryption keys external to the DR550. The DR550 also can manage the encryption keys for the tape encryption capabilities offered with the IBM System Storage TS1120 and LTO–4® tape drives. The encryption on the TS1120 and LTO–4 tape drives is designed to allow for encryption within the drive and encryption key management independent of the application.
