EMC new brain for document management
EMC new brain for document management
EMC has created a new storage service that allocates documents automatically into different tiers of storage, depending on age and value to help improve information access, retention and also meet compliance requirements.
The new EMC Documentum Content Storage Services includes a policy engine that IT managers can use to place corporate documents into primary, secondary and archival storage.
In addition, it supports all EMC storage platforms, as well as arrays from other vendors, including Hitachi, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Network Appliance.
Corporate Express, one of the world's largest business-to-business suppliers of essential office and computer products, has deployed Documentum products across many business initiatives throughout the company. Wayne Aiello, the vice president of e-business services for Corporate Express said: "Corporate Express sees great value in EMC Documentum Content Storage Services, as the solution enables companies like ours to be smart and take a proactive approach to maximising the value of our content and our storage infrastructure.
"We see particular value in deploying Documentum Content Storage Services, not only for contracts and financial documents, but also for automated, policy-based archival of web content. Establishing business policies for storing and migrating content brings new levels of operational efficiency, which lead to cost savings."
Document Content Storage Services is designed for organisations big and small with varying degrees of IT complexity. These include small companies that need automated rules-based archival to large enterprises that have embraced tiered storage due to increasing volumes of unstructured content.
Companies in the past have paid more for unneeded access speeds and uptime, sacrificing performance, data protection or compliance to control storage costs. They have also struggled with manual, error-prone processes for content archival, resulting in costly exposure to risk, unintended content deletion and non-compliance.
EMC claims that the Document Content Storage Services allows information to be allocated and migrated across storage devices based on business policies that allow the system to allocate data in regards to the content type, the level of access, its lifecycle state, sharing permissions, industry regulations or archiving requirements, as well as the date it was last accessed, size, related transactions or related documents.
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