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Storage Management
All data needs to be managed, how companies control and police the information life cycle of their data is a continually growing problem. Many data compliance and corporate governance regulations require information to be stored and kept for a minimum number of years and thereafter deleted.
A tiered storage solution can alleviate all of these issues by creating policy rules based on the data type. For example an insurer might issue a new policy to a customer and this information may need to be accessed over the following 60 days for accuracy and formal checks, thereafter it can be archived. The information will therefore remain on primary storage for the first 60 days, moving to SATA after this time and finally migrating to a Blu-ray optical disc after 120 days for long term archive.”
All this can be achieved with very little human intervention once the policy rules have been created as the whole information life cycle process is fully automated.
Backup the data
The backing up of data does not move the data through the storage tiers. All a backup does is ensure that the data can be restored in the event of a disaster. As data volumes rise the backup window shrinks and this again makes backup a more selective process rather than a backup everything policy. A backup could be used to keep an archive copy of migrated data and this could be performed monthly or quarterly.
Corporate Governance and Data Compliance
The need for corporate governance and data compliance is becoming increasingly common in business. An Active Data Archive can become an essential part of corporate governance and data compliant strategy. By setting policies on data types we can determine where it needs to be stored, how long it needs to be retained and when it needs to be deleted or moved. In addition to this, reporting and data discovery is necessary when trying to find/track file movements within the archive. It can also be used to discover file types which are not allowed to be stored on the corporate network and automatically delete the information or move it to another location for processing. This provides an essential part of any compliant archiving solution.
Identifying the data
The task many IT managers face is trying to identify current from historical data. We can provide this as a service and supply a detailed report outlining your IOP usage, who, what, where & when the files were last accessed. Once we identify our files we simply create simple policy rules to move the data based on age, file size, user/group, file extension, last accessed/modified date, project folder etc. These rules can then be scheduled to run out of hours and the data moved transparently through the storage tiers without the users knowledge. When the user wishes to access the file it is automatically pre-migrated to the primary tiered storage.
Reduced costs
Once a tiered storage solution has been implemented the financial investment will be repaid in a relatively short time frame. As mentioned we can free up disk space on primary tier 1 storage, save energy by storing data on lower cost storage platforms and reduce our backup window.
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