EMC freshens up Centera
EMC freshens up Centera
EMC has refreshed the capabilities of EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) by making it able to securely archive virtually any data type from any application running on any open platform.
A new version of Centera Universal Access software and Centera's open application programming interface (API) allows users to archive from non-integrated applications built on Windows, Linux, Unix and IBM's iSeries platforms.
The new CUA Version 2.1 provides support for all major-standard protocols: Network File System (NFS) including IBM iSeries via Integrated File System (IFS) using NFS, Common Internet File System (CIFS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Tom Heiser, the senior vice president and general manager of EMC's Centera Division said that EMC Centera Universal Access allows customers to completely standardise on CAS with Centera for all enterprise archiving needs. "EMC is demonstrating its commitment to bringing the benefits of CAS to every organisation and business application.
"Our goal is for CAS and information lifecycle management (ILM) to help customers achieve maximum business value from their information with an IT infrastructure that is flexible, simple and easy to use."
Raymond van den Berg, the ICT director at Vlietland Ziekenhuis, a large hospital in the Netherlands talked about the benefits from a user's point of view. "EMC Centera Universal Access allows our Philips PACS solution, running without modification, to archive medical images to Centera. Being magnetic disk based, we retrieve archived images quickly and have saved two full-time staff equivalents because tape management has been eliminated. Centera is the enterprise archive platform for all of Vlietland Ziekenhuis."
CUA is available in three models: Basic; Retention Support, which supports Centera Compliance edition; and Enhanced Availability, which allows two CUAs to work with each other in case one fails.
CUA has its roots in storage software company, Storigen Systems, which EMC bought last year. The product is considered to be essential for combating concerns voiced by experts over new recent compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and SEC 17a-4 and because the amount of data that needs to be stored properly is still growing so rapidly inside companies worldwide.
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