Unified Archiving A new generation of archiving solutions

Why Unified Archiving?

The requirements for archiving have risen due to the introduction of compliance guidelines and statutory requirements. Thus, the need for revision-proof documentation detailing work processes and results grows. E-discovery, the company wide search and provision of information, requires powerful search functions within a robust and flexible archive solution.

Future-proof archiving concepts learn from the following trends:

• Archiving will be part of every business process.
• A significantly greater volume of data and new types of information are archived and must be found.
• Search is not restricted to individual types of information as today but will include all information, regardless of type, format and original application.
• 20 years ago, data management moved away from single applications towards central DBMS platforms. Similarly, archiving and retention will move from the application to a central infrastructure.
• The access to archived data must transparently linked to existing applications.
• New archiving concepts assist enterprises to archive data across applications and storage technologies.

Benefits of Unified Archiving?

IT strategy

• Consolidation of all enterprise storage needs in a system with uniform access.
• Independence from the underlying storage technology and the life cycle of applications.

Compliance

• The compliance requirements for the storage of audit information are met.
• Cross-sectoral approaches to the management of retention periods (retention management) will be established.

Costs

• Drastic reduction of memory and thus the overall cost by avoiding duplication.
• Replacement of costly storage silos within an efficient platform.