Idealstor: Archiving Solution With Removable WORM HDDs

Idealstor LLC, in removable disk solutions, announced an affordable solution for meeting compliance requirements. Idealstor WORM will offer a large and fast removable WORM disk with media costs at less than 20 cents/GB.

Building upon its removable disk technology which replaces tapes, customers can now incorporate WORM technology with removable disks which offer larger capacity, better reliability and faster speeds than tape or optical media, to deal with regulatory requirements.

Business relevant data must be stored in an unchangeable format for compliance reasons in accordance with country-specific legal requirements. WORM technology is considered a standard for addressing these regulatory requirements such as SEC 17a-4, NASD 3110 (now FINRA), DOD 5015, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA. Failure to comply can impose severe penalties on US companies.

The WORM appliance integrates into the existing network and runs on Windows 2008 R2 server. Any application can write data to the WORM disk, via CIFS or NFS, without any need for a propietary API.

The appliance will be available in 2, 4, 6 and 8 disk configurations with each disk scaling up to 4TB of raw data. Each disk can be swapped just like tape to add additional capacity.

"The cost associated with disk based WORM technology has been very expensive," said Nandan Arora, CTO, Idealstor. "The ability to access archived data directly from the file system quickly, scale as data grows, and to do so at a cost effective price is what the Idealstor appliance will offer."

The appliance will help customers to migrate data not only from outdated jukeboxes, but also technically obsolete spinning disk archive solutions based on proprietary hardware.

Idealstor will be able to offer customers deployment and operation of disk based storage and take advantage of compliance enabling features such as WORM data authenticity, time based file retention and extended file security. It will now be able to market an archiving solution for partners and customers requiring archiving solutions for ECM, email archiving, media and entertainment, video surveillance, file archiving and other archive-enabled applications.