Learn how a software-defined approach can help you protect business-critical data in a future-proof, flexible and cost-effective way.
Digitization has opened up new opportunities for many industries and changed the way they work. The accompanying growth in data volumes has exponentially increased the need for compliance-compliant, flexible data archiving. As the IT landscape continues to evolve, more and more companies are choosing to future-proof their data archiving with the help of modern software solutions.
Your business environment typically has numerous business applications that manage structured and unstructured information. Secure data management and archiving solutions are essential for this task. It is important that this information is
Archival data is generally data that is very important to your organization or needs to be retained for future use or regulatory compliance requirements. Data archiving is the process of storing data that is no longer in active use to a separate storage destination in the long-term.
As a first step, it makes sense to establish a process for data archiving in your organization. Different compliance rules and legal regulations require the storage and archiving of certain data. However, implementing a defined process for your enterprise archiving not only strengthens your compliance, but also optimizes efficiency and ensures that the entire workforce follows a clear approach.
Traditional solutions, such as proprietary hardware silos, were not designed for today's rapid data growth. Organizations face significant challenges in managing, storing and protecting their data. Scalability of data storage capacity at a reasonable scale plays a critical role in meeting storage requirements as well as ensuring cost efficiency.
Retention periods ranging from several years to a decade or two (in some cases longer) apply to many types of data and documents. Developments in storage technologies require frequent data migrations, which create additional costs and uncertainty. As all industries undergo rapid technological advancements and storage technologies and requirements continue to evolve, a more flexible approach is required today.
The answer to existing data archiving challenges is efficient, effective tools for long-term, future-proof storage of critical business data - the Software-Defined Archiving (SDA) approach enables just that.
SDA solutions allow your valuable business data to be stored flexibly (regardless of its size) and comply with regulatory requirements. Archiving is maximally scalable, as the necessary hardware functionalities are managed by a software layer - thus SDA offers a clear future-proof solution for data archiving in your company.
iCAS is a middleware based on the Software-Defined Archiving approach. The archiving software can easily be integrated into existing and heterogeneous IT infrastructures. With iCAS, you can simply and quickly meet regulatory and legal requirements through WORM data storage, encryption and retention management.
Use our Software-Defined Archiving technology for cost-effective and high-performance x86 servers to scale your archive without limits. With iCAS FS you get an auto-managed archiving system with which you have no administration effort. Benefit from low total costs, easy handling and cover several use cases around long-term data storage in one platform.
