A number of trends
are driving IT managers to rethink their strategies for data archiving
and preservation. These include Information Lifecycle Management (ILM),
industry-based compliance regulations, and the need for long-term, persistent
archives. Until now, organizations have typically addressed requirements
for long-term data preservation, media compliance (WORM), or archiving
with stand-alone, application-specific, point solutions - each requiring
separate storage components and devices.
In contrast to these
point solutions, FileTek's StorHouse® for Enterprise Archiving offers
an expanded approach to data archiving by providing an automatically managed
central hierarchy of storage devices accessible by many applications throughout
the enterprise. Table 1 lists the unique benefits that distinguish the
StorHouse approach from hierarchical storage management (HSM) products
and file system-based archiving alternatives.
Table
1 - Unique StorHouse Benefits
Performance
- Regardless of file size or number of rows, file system and
SQL retrievals of requested data from any storage layer occur in
seconds with no need to first restore entire files to disk.
Scalability
- File system data archives can grow to billions of files with
no performance degradation because StorHouse uses a unique relational
method to store and index all file locator data (metadata about
individual files).
Relational data
archives can grow to billions of rows and petabytes of data because
of StorHouse's patented segmentation features that optimize retrievals
from low-cost, removable media in automated libraries.
Standard Access : StorHouse provides file access to file
system data through standard file system I/O.
StorHouse provides relational access with ANSI-standard SQL.
Reduced data
ownership costs - StorHouse provides affordable, optimal storage
of application data on a blended media hierarchy of tape, optical,
and disk. Applications can choose the storage layer that best satisfies
their retrieval needs.
Built-in
compliance support - Configurable parameters and compliant media
types ensure retrievals satisfy industry-based retention rules and
archive data remains accessible throughout its required lifespan.
Data sharing
across the enterprise - StorHouse promotes secure access to
all archived data from mainframe, UNIX, and Windows platforms through
NFS, NTFS, and CIFS file systems and transparent gateways to industry-leading
vendor databases such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and SAP BW.
Simplified
system administration - Storage management is completely automatic,
including data migration between storage layers, backup, recovery,
and replication.
Support for
Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) - StorHouse architecture
and features complement ILM strategies for managing data optimally
from creation and use through archive and deletion.
