Addressing Archiving and Retention Challenges In the Government Sector
This whitepaper from EnterpriseStrategy Group describes the challenges of information growth and why government organizations must deal with information retention, protection and security issues going forward.
Enabling Compliance in the Financial Services Industry
This whitepaper from EnterpriseStrategy Group describes some of the regulations around record retention within the Financial Services Industry and how IBM System Storage DR550 addresses them.
RFG Paper on Optimizing Data Retention and Archiving
A new research paper from Robert Francis Group helps IT executives understand the cost differences for a disk–only archive approach versus disk/tape archive approach and how a DR550 solution can help address the long–term storage archive requirements with a world–class storage strategy that reduces cost, improves efficiency and supports compliance.
ESG Lab Review on IBM System Storage DR550 and ZANTAZ EAS Performance
ESG Lab examined the e-mail archive performance of an e-mail archiving solution using the IBM System Storage DR550. The results presented in this report prove that an IBM DR550 and ZANTAZ EAS software can be used to satisfy the e-mail archival needs of organizations of all sizes. In particular, this report shows how the IBM Systems Storage DR550 delivers the performance required to satisfy the archiving needs of an organization with 50,000 employees creating one million messages per day.
IBM's Data Retention Appliance - The Case for Just-in-Case on the IBM System Storage DR550 by Clipper Group's David Reine. "With access to servers, disk arrays and tape libraries from divisions within their own company, IBM has upgraded their existing data retention offering, the IBM System Storage DR550, with the latest in server architecture to provide the highest performance and reliability, and the latest in disk array technology, to provide scalability levels to satisfy the growth demands of the largest enterprise." To see if the DR550 can satisfy your needs and budget, please read this report.
This paper provides information and considerations for businesses that need to architect new or existing business strategies to address industry and government regulations that govern the disposition of company's data assets from date-of-creation to end-of-life.
This document explains the underlying concepts of the Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) feature of the Tivoli Storage Manager software used by the IBM System Storage DR550 solution. It shows how DRM can be used in combination with other facilities to create an AIX image to backup and restore the DR550 operating system, the Tivoli Storage Manager server database and to archive data.
The IBM System Storage DR550 Users Guide offers an insight into the IBM System Storage DR550, which is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and securing regulated data and other archived data.
The guide reviews the characteristics of the DR550, with details on the different hardware elements of the offering and how they are initially configured. This book reviews additional configuration tasks that are required to deploy the solution in an existing environment.
Additionally, the Users Guide presents key software elements including operating system, clustering and the data protection components. The Users Guide also discusses the interoperability of content management applications and tape media attachment.
Finally, the User Guide describes important information about the installation, setup, operations, and problem determination features of the IBM System Storage DR550
