Digistore Releases Centurion NAS

Digistore Solutions Holdings Ltd. released the first of their Centurion enterprise suite of products, the Centurion iServ.

"The Centurion iServe is the world’s first NAS that is able to connect
seamlessly with the Centurion iHub, our automated optical disc storage library.
While enabling frequently accessed data such as documents, images and media
files to be always available on the network, crucially it transfers dormant
data automatically to the optical drive as archives. Only 25% of a company’s
data is active, the rest is dormant data that needs to be stored. By removing
the dormant data from the NAS the cost to the business of data storage is
greatly reduced. Businesses are able to remain compliant while still able to
locate files simply and easily by storing dormant data on the Centurion iHub.
The Centurion iServe and the Centurion iHub combination offers quality
archiving architecture for compliance and legislative requirement"
said  Geoff MacLeod-Smith, CEO, DSSH.

The company has been able to
achieve this through the development of their Information Lifestyle Management
solution. The Centurion iServe employs this solution to offer an administrable
solution for storing content without disrupting day-to-day operations. Data is
continuously archived while business continues twenty-four hours a day. This is
important in today’s business environment. It protects data from accidental
erasure, unauthorised modification, viruses and data corruption for fifty years
or more.

The early 2013 release of the
Centurion iHub will create a NAS host system with optical storage capabilities.
This will enable companies to meet their compliance and security issues both in
time and cost. Dormant data will be stored on the optical library releasing the
NAS to perform its operation. The product is stackable ensuring that companies
can purchase the more economical one instead of being forced to purchase
multiple NAS, the only solution that has been offered to date. Each iHub can
hold up to 10TB. This will enable the company to provide our Archiving
as a Service mobile solution to businesses, archives and governments worldwide.

Running costs are reduced with
the iHub using less than 10% of the power consumption required by a disc based
archive solution by leveraging on a distributed processing architecture that
scales capacity and performance. As dormant data is stored on the Centurion
iHub, it is a low power solution with a minimal carbon footprint over time. The
Centurion iServe and iHub will provide a HSM to the enterprise.

"Victor Advanced Media known as its brand name as JVC for recording
media, has been evangelizing the advantages of optical disc usage for
archiving. DSSH’s innovative technologies along with our core expertises of the
optical disc and its drive will take us to the next stage. We are just in time
to meet the requirement of the big data era and are excited to bring a variety
of benefits to customers and the global environment with this new concept."
said Takao Akaishi, GM of Victor Advanced Media Co. Ltd.

The Centurion iServe Pro – an
enterprise solution will be released in December 2012. This product will offer
the same hardware and features as the Centurion iServe but is targeted toward
enterprise businesses needing a fibre optic connection to the data centre. This
will increase the application’s performance and ensure an efficient Information
Lifecycle Management archival solution to the data centre. It will connect with
the Centurion iHub which can be scaled via manageable increments as needed. It
will be moveable enabling flexibility within the bays in the data
centre.

These products ensure a business can meet its compliance and legislative requirements while knowing
that data are accessible and secure.