Active Archive
Substantive growth within client’s technology infrastructure with different tiers of primary storage and multiple storage systems from various vendors dictates the need for a more advanced design to address data scalability, protection and availability issues.
DPF’s Professional Services Group will deploy the EMC file assessment tool to better understand and evaluate current state and performance of client’s file system and Exchange server infrastructure within a SAN, NAS and DAS environment. The tool will identify current utilization, growth rates, aged content, cost accessed times, number of duplicate attachments and other essential benchmarks. With this analysis serving as a foundation for determination of what data may be migrated, DPF will deploy a cost-effective, centralized disk-based archival strategy satisfying current and future information growth requirements.
EMC’s enhanced archiving software delivers a policy-based solution for automatic migration of static e-mail, database and file content directly from your Windows, UNIX or LINUX Environment to a centralized less expensive self-managed and fully protected disk-based archive platform while still providing timely accessibility. Additional features include de-duplication, compression, retention and deletion policies, enhancing corporate governance and compliance requisites. Substantial capacity will be reclaimed, upwards to 70% on primary storage, in migrating static data to the disk-based archiving platform substantially improving recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time (RTO) resulting in overall application performance.
Key migration software:
- EMC DiskXtender – intelligently migrates inactive or infrequently used files to more cost effective storage via policies based on file attributes.
- EMC EmailXtender – advanced email archiving program improving storage management and efficiencies in Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes environments, reducing cost and risk of legal discovery (eDiscovery) and compliance requirements.
- EMC DatabaseXtender – migrate inactive Oracle database transactions onto more cost-effective storage.
EMC storage solutions integrate seamlessly with the client’s current email applications, file systems, databases, and third party platforms and offer cost effective responses to small, midsize and large organizations infrastructure requirements. Consolidating information silos into unified disk archiving tiers reduces quantity of storage needed, enhances availability and streamlines backup and recovery.
A wide range of EMC Network Storage Solutions for archival:
- Centera content – addressable storage CLARiiON AX
- Centera Governance Edition Celerra NS
- CLARiiON CX3
The Intelligent Tiered Storage Solutions are a key element in a an efficient and cost effective information of Life-cycle management strategy, enabling you to get the maximum value from all your information assets at the lower cost of ownership at every stage in the information Life-cycle.
