Object storage and software defined archiving: How to design future proof, cost efficient and flexible solutions

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1 Andrea Kurz Partner Manager iternity GmbH Object storage and software defined archiving: How to design future proof, cost efficient and flexible solutions L I V I N G U P T I M E 1

2 Company overview Specialized in compliant archiving Established 2004 Headquarter: Freiburg Germany International representations in France, Italy and USA Worldwide installations in various industries 2

3 icas reduces company risks Company data is extremely important High damage potential due to loss of data Following issues could be the cause of damage risks: Tax requirements, e.g. General Tax Act (GTA) Legal requirements Industry related requirements Liability risks 3

4 Who needs icas? Industry perspective: Companies with more than 200 employees Hospitals Customers from controlled markets (e.g. Pharma, Finance, Energy ) Companies with high liability requirements, e.g. automotive suppliers etc. Public authorities User perspective: Everyone using SAP/ERP systems Everyone using DMS/ECM systems 4

5 How does icas help you as a customer? Reduction of company risks Due to better protection of important data Securing data - preventing silent data corruption Higher flexibility in terms of future IT-projects icas adapts to future changes in your infrastructure Higher Availability Due to Virtualisation of the archive By migrating backend data Lower TCO icas is transferable to new hardware Efficient use of your storage infrastructure Investment protection Economical migration Reduced down times 5

6 Compliance requirements Requirements for a compliant solution are based on various regulations (e.g. DCC, GTA, Euro-SOX, General Administrative Law Act, Basel II, VATA...) Data must be tamper-proof Data cannot be deleted (WORM) Data must be kept for a specified period (retention) Data must be able to be migrated to an alternative media Access to individual archived objects must be possible at all times 6

7 icas Market Segment File-Services Unstructured Application Data Unstructured ERP (SAP..) Mail (Symantec, Autonomy..) PACS (GE, AGFA..) ECM (Opentext..) Other Perfect fit for Characteristic of Application data: Compliance is important Unstructured fixed content Long retention periods Huge growing data amount (PBs) Cold data icas provides: Compliance Retention management / WORM Certified interfaces to more then 65 ISVs Dynamic Online Data e.g. Databases 4 of the top 5 applications, most responsible for data growth, are icas relevant applications. - according to the ESG Storage Market Survey icas competitors: NetApp Snaplock EMC Centera (sold ~600PB) Hitachi HCAP Dell DX (discontinued) IBM IA (discontinued) 7

8 Data access in time Applications dynamic Data mostly constant Storage Media / Technology dynamic 1. year 5. year 10. year 30. year 8

9 IBM & icas Archive Design Business Processes Business Applications ERP, CRM, ECM, File Services, , PACS, e.g. OpenText, d.velop, Optimal-Systems, Symantec EV, CommVault or custom applications ISV Application icas Archive WORM function, retention management, encryption, self-healing and compression icas & IT Infrastructure IT Infrastructure 9

10 icas architecture ECM, DMS, Mail Application layer read write Cluster icas Archive layer SAS / iscsi / FC / NAS Storage layer JBOD SAN NAS Cloud 10

11 icas for Long Term Archiving SECURITY FLEXIBILITY COST EFFICIENCY icas provides security for your archive data. icas provides you with the highest flexibility for the future of your archive infrastructure. icas provides you various benefits for the lowest TCO. 11

12 icas is certified icas meets legal requirements: icas is a modern archive-infrastructure and fully meets the legal requirements. certified by Dr. Ivo Geis Lawyer for IT- and Information Law KPMG has certified icas upon accordance with the legal requirements for tamper proof long term archiving. 12

13 icas ISV support icas has broad support from a variety of software companies, such as: OpenText Symantec Saperion Docuware Easy ELO SAP MS SharePoint Commvault Kendox Autonomy Heilig & Schubert Optimal Systems d.velop KGS Ceyoniq SER GE Healthcare Visus Perceptive 13

14 icas Technology Highest security standards: WORM Functionality with patented Content-Storage- Container Technology (CSC) Save data archiving via 512 bit Hash code (HMAC SHA512) Integrated compression and encryption (AES256) Based on industry standards (Webservice) U.S. DoD- compliant data shredder High availability via cluster support 14

15 Archive replication with icas icas is able to archive data synchronously on two separate storage devices. Various technologies could be used at the same time e.g. SAN and NAS. ECM, DMS, ERP, Mail, Pacs This functionality provides security against the replication of logical failures of single storage devices or administrational failures. HP / icas 15

16 Self-Healing of archives icas monitors replicated storage systems continuously to identify and repair broken objects. ECM, DMS, ERP, Mail, Pacs Because of the hash value based software of icas, the solution is able to decide whether an object is valid or broken. HP / icas 16

17 icas provides investment protection Investment protection through storage independence License model based on archive size in TB icas software license is not bound to a hardware system Replication of archive without additional icas license costs Easy data migration in a live environment Highly scalable from GB to PB the license can be adjusted to the future demands pay as you go - Storage independence free choice of hardware (internal disks, external low, midrange or high-end disk systems) Low management costs due to integration into existing infrastructures (management, backup, storage, virtualization remains unchanged) 17

18 icas References 18

19 Summary 1. SECURITY Technology (WORM, AES-encryption, Data-Shredder..) ISV Support (Opentext, Symantec ) KPMG certification / Software Escrow Reference Installation for all industries available FLEXIBILITY Hardware Independent Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, XEN..) Scalability COST EFFICENCY Investment protection Fast and easy data migration License model Low TCO 19

20 I look forward to seeing you at our booth! Andrea Kurz Partner Manager iternity GmbH Telefon +49 (0) Web More information on the EXPO floor!!! L I V I N G U P T I M E 20