IBM Information Archive to Be Announced

IBM Information Archive from IBM Corp. is the next-generation information retention solution designed as a universal archiving repository for virtually all types of content to help midsize and enterprise clients in their efforts to reduce cost, manage risk, and address clients information retention needs.

This highly versatile, cloud-ready, smart business system can be a useful tool for users in their efforts to support regulatory compliance by providing a storage repository with robust security features designed to prevent the alteration or deletion of the storage repository in which information is stored until your business-designated retention period has elapsed.

IBM Information Archive is designed to help reduce the need and expense for primary storage by enabling archiving applications to move less active but business vital information off the primary storage tier to cost-effective and scalable ‘archive’ storage tier, to help to reduce information infrastructure costs. An archiving strategy that helps optimize primary storage space can allow mission-critical applications to run faster, provide higher availability, and allow backup and recovery operations to be completed more quickly and, thereby, improving overall productivity.

In addition, Information Archive enforces policies across a single repository that may combine both disk and multiple tape systems that scales to petabytes in size. This combination can provide exceptionally low overall cost of ownership.

In an effort to help meet the widest range of retention demands, IBM Information Archive allows IT administrators to customize retention policies based on unique and dynamically changing business requirements.

Key features:

• The architecture of Information Archive is designed to bring enterprise-class scalability and outstanding performance to open systems and mainframe environments.
• Information Archive has the ability to store, retrieve, and protect content from many different applications across multiple standards-based interfaces, as well as the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager API.
• Multiple configuration and collection repositories offer the wide range of flexible protection levels and usage options to help meet unique and dynamically changing data retention requirements with different deployment options.
• Fully integrated solution is simple to implement and easy-to-use, enabling you to begin to realize the value of archiving quickly. You can manage your archived information from a single intuitive interface.

Planned availability date: IBM Information Archive is being previewed to provide insight into IBM’s plans and direction. Availability, prices, ordering information, and terms and conditions will be provided when the product is announced.