IBM's compliance friendly storage server
IBM's compliance friendly storage server
IBM will release the TotalStorage FastT100 Storage Server later this month to help companies cope with growing data retention and government regulatory concerns, from data creation to disposal.
It is designed to provide companies with the tools needed to address data retention requirements while offering new levels of security, reliability and technology investment protection.
IBM executives have outlined that the company's vision is to help customers better manage their data in order to help limit disruptions during disasters or during the process of complying with government regulations.
Rich Lechner, vice president of storage systems at IBM said. "Today we extended IBM's vision of Information on Demand - a comprehensive strategy including products and services to help clients adapt to the changing requirements of information management. IBM is helping clients simplify their infrastructure, manage information over its lifecycle and create a rock-solid platform for business continuity."
This solution aims to help small and medium-sized businesses retain a vast amount of information, whilst also having that data available on demand.
For example, it could help companies in the financial services industry to retain transaction records and auditing information, though that type of data is seldom accessed.
In addition, the FastT100 can help improve storage management as well as making it easier to add new servers and applications with a common management tool.
It can be divided into 16 storage partitions so storage capacity can be strategically allocated to help increase the utilisation of storage space and to reduce management costs.
The FastT100 is intended to be a faster alternative to tape systems for storing infrequently accessed data. This will be sold at a lower cost than disk storage systems based on Serial ATA interface hard drives. It uses less expensive, higher capacity Serial ATA interface drives and comes in sizes up to 250GB.
It is also designed to interoperate with IBM eServer (tm) pSeries (r) and IBM eServer xSeries (r) servers as well as with other industry Intel (r) processor-based and UNIX(r)-based servers.
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