Information Archive

Highlights

Universal storage repository for all types of content, structured and unstructured, compliant or non compliant
Provides flexibility through its support of collections and through its information protection-level support option
Stores information via multiple access methods
Scales up to 608 TB (Raw Capacity)
Maintains information integrity until deletion is permitted by retention policy and increases information security through its enhanced tamper protection feature
Helps optimize storage with its data deduplication and compression features
Offers low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by allowing use of mixed media (disk, tape and virtual tape)

As you address your information retention needs: Either for keeping valuable content for long periods of time, to meet with industry retention regulations or to address corporate governance; you need an archiving solution that is secure, scalable, and cost-effective. IBM Information Archive, the next generation information retention solution is designed as an archiving repository for all types of content (structured or unstructured) to help organizations of any size address complete information retention needsbusiness, legal, or regulatory.

IBM Information Archive is designed to help you reduce cost, improve operational efficiency and manage risk, in the following ways:

Reduce cost

Reduces disk capacity requirements with its built-in data deduplication, compression and hierarchal storage management features.
Eliminates the need to maintain two separate platforms for structured and unstructured information.
Reduces primary storage requirements by moving information to lower cost storage tiers, including tape.
Single management point helps reduce the labor required to manage archived information.
Ability to use a single archive platform for multiple lines of business (LOBs) that allows reduction of floor space and energy cost.

Improve operational efficiency

Support of Industry standard interfaces and protocols minimize investments in information retention
Ease of install and configuration enables quicker time-to-value
Its single user interface and RAS footprint simplifies management of archived information
Provides the flexibility to configure up to three separate information repositories (collections) within one IBM Information Archive

Manage risk

Designed to help your business meet the most stringent information retention requirements.
Provides a compliant storage repository: Non erasable non rewritable (NENR) and write once read many (WORM) protection.
Increases protection through its new patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection feature.

Common features

Scales up to 608 TB (raw capacity)
Provides protected storage for data integrity and authenticity
Non-erasable Non-rewriteable (NENR) data retention
Write Once Read Many (WORM) data protection
Provides three configurable information collections per Information Archive
Provides multiple protection levels
Stores information via multiple access methods:
- System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) interface
- Industry-standard interfaces (NFS)
Deduplication
Compression
Tiered Storage Repository
Patent-Pending enhanced tamper protection

Hardware summary

608 TB of maximum storage capacity (224 TB raw in the main rack 2231-IA3 and 2 X 192 TB raw in the Expansion rack 2231-IS32)
1 Remote Support Managers server (mandatory)
1 KVM (mandatory)
1 Management Server (mandatory)
2 SMC switch (mandatory)
1 FC 10/100/1G (mandatory)
2 24 port Brocade (Optional)
FC Switches (Optional but paired)
1 Ingest/Retrieve (S2M server)(mandatory)
2 2231-S2M Servers (Optional for performance)
1 2231-D1A Disk Controller (mandatory)
2 2231-D1A Disk Controller (Optionalfor more collections, x1 Controller per Collection)
Up to 6 2231-D1B Disk Expansion Drawers for 1st Disk Controller and up to 5 2231-D1B for the 2nd and 3rd Disk Controllers