Fast WORM storage on magnetic disk - High-performance, non-rewritable,
non-erasable disk storage protects data until a specified retention date.
Open solution using standard protocols - Leverages industry-standard CIFS
and NFS protocols to support easy data access and application integration.
Flexible and robust compliant data protection - Supports fully compliant
replication between WORM volumes on IBM TotalStorage N series and
nearline and primary storage systems.
The challenge: complying with strict records retention and performance
requirements
Organizations today face increasingly strict regulations relative to records retention
that require the archiving of e-mails, documents, patient records, design
files, audit information, and other data for years, often on WORM (write
once, read many) media. In addition, companies are increasingly implementing
rigorous best practices to ensure that unregulated but crucial reference
data is not changed or deleted and can be quickly and easily retrieved.
In today's world, government and internal records requests frequently
combine highly specific search criteria with tight response times, and
failure to accurately retrieve the required unaltered records may result
in significant financial penalties or damage to reputation. However, current
WORM technologies based on optical disk and tape do not provide sufficiently
rapid access.
Solution: IBM System Storage N series with SnapLock Compliance and SnapLock
Enterprise Software
The SnapLock function is designed to deliver high performance and high-security data function to disk-based nearline and primary IBM System Storage N series storage. The SnapLock function can help manage the permanence, accuracy, integrity, and security of data by storing business records in an inalterable form and allowing for their rapid online accessibility for long periods of time.
