Learn how a software-defined approach can help you protect business-critical data in a future-proof, flexible and cost-effective way.
Software-Defined Archiving (SDA) separates the archive intelligence from physical hardware. A flexible software layer bundles and centralizes archiving functionalities. Archiving thus becomes scalable, efficient, flexible and independent of storage hardware.
Archiving is necessary for most organizations for legal and internal reasons, often even mission-critical. This will not change in the future as data volumes continue to increase and compliance and regulations continue to evolve.
Unlike traditional archive systems, SDA is designed around industry-standard or x86 systems, which are intended to break the software's dependence on proprietary hardware. The decoupling of software and hardware enables flexible expansion of storage capacity.
Software-Defined Archiving (SDA) offers companies the opportunity to react flexibly to their increased archiving requirements without being tied to storage manufacturers or hardware.
Read the whitepaper to find out what Software-Defined Archiving means, how the approach differs from others and whether the switch is worthwhile for your archive storage.
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Our unique archiving approach is based on the established Software-Defined Storage (SDS) concept. To enable you to flexibly expand storage capacity, this involves decoupling the storage software from the underlying hardware.
The advantage of this open approach is that it is based on industry standards, x86 hardware, and open interfaces. By leveraging the latest developments in industry-standard server and storage hardware, Software-Defined Archiving enables you to take advantage of the latest hardware improvements and price reductions over time. This results in tremendous total cost advantages over proprietary systems and the public cloud. Software-Defined Archiving also allows you to tie your existing infrastructure to the archiving software. Depending on the solution used, this can range from DAS, NAS, SAN, to object and cloud storage systems.
With SDA you get a lean infrastructure, which can react flexibly to changes and easily adapt to new requirements at the same time. This allows you to use existing resources more efficiently, expand more easily, migrate data more simply, and centralize the archive.
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.
