EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD) says the latest update to InfoArchive, Version 4.0, caters for the extreme demands of archiving structured and unstructured data in the big data era.

“Extreme archiving scenarios at petabyte scale are becoming increasingly important for two reasons,” said Jeroen van Rotterdam, CTO of EMC’s Enterprise Content Division.

“First, managing the amount of structured and unstructured data created and processed today is tremendously challenging. Second, the pressure to maintain compliant data in highly regulated industries, such as Financial Services, has intensified. Customers require the right solution to address both of these challenges, as well as to achieve cost savings and better data insights, which ultimately drive better business decisions.”

“Data volumes within in the enterprise are exploding, and managing this type of volume leads to many challenges. Large enterprises can easily have tens of petabytes of unstructured data and hundreds of billions of transactions that they need to retain for long periods of time due to increasingly strict regulations. In Financial Services, retention periods vary between seven and twelve years, depending on the country and data type, while in industries such as healthcare and the defence industry, this can easily go up to 100 years. “

InfoArchive 4.0 promises the ability to enable retention management, legal holds, data masking and PCI compliance without the need to copy or reprocess data after it has been ingested. EMC says out-of-the-box compliant data access for Hadoop means regulated information and records can be made available to big data analytics at a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and without compliance compromises.

Once data and content has been ingested, retention and other regulatory compliance policies can be enacted. With compliance built into InfoArchive, there is no need to copy the data to another repository or re-feed the data when compliance rules change. InfoArchive offers a wide range of compliance controls such as retention policies, event-based retention, legal holds, PCI compliance, masking, tokenization, chain of custody and full audit logs. There are retention and hold policies at the record level. With in-place compliance, customers are not only managing today’s compliance requirements efficiently, they are also prepared for the future.

The solution now includes a new, horizontally scalable architecture and is designed to provide visibility into both structured and unstructured data sources and dependencies in one architecture,

InfoArchive 4.0 is designed around a scale-out cluster architecture. Every component in the architecture scales horizontally from the storage layer, the database layer, the InfoArchive server layer and the web access layer. This allows us to offer a single archive for all data in the enterprise, eliminating costly archive silos. Large financial institutes need to manage extreme amounts of structured and unstructured data – hundreds of billions of emails; hundreds of billions of transactions; all social media and communications content created by their employees; and billions of documents – in a cost effective way.

EMC InfoArchive now enables users to manage SAP data throughout the application lifecycle. The EMC platform supports active archiving of SAP production systems with SAP Archivelink. This means users can access and retrieve data using SAP-native tools, and also manage data in a centralized repository while maintaining compliance with both industry regulations and company policies.

EMC InfoArchive 4.0 will be generally available on June 13, 2016. It is volume priced by TB ingested.

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