Archiving
Every organization knows they should have an electronic records management program to meet regulatory, corporate governance and electronic discovery requirements. However, many companies do not realize that records management enabled through archive solutions can also control storage costs. Establishing retention policies that include where the data will be stored through the retention period can be accomplished in purpose-built archive software, active archive storage, or a combination of both.
ESG has found that, by creating an active archive, primary systems' performance can be improved and the capacity of data transferred across the LAN, WAN, or SAN and through data protection systems will be greatly reduced. Single-instance capabilities in this tier can reduce storage capacity three- to five-fold and sub-file-level deduplication can optimize capacity even further (for the active archive tier as well as in secondary storage).
 | See the resources included here to find out what ESG Analyst Terri McClure and ESG Lab Director Brian Garrett think about using the EMC Centera scale-out disk solution for active archiving in their White Paper. Also, ESG Senior Analyst Brian Babineau walks through the return on investment that can be achieved with the EMC SourceOne Email Management archive solution in his brief, and Lauren Whitehouse talks about the host of issues that can be addressed by fully leveraging disk-based archiving technology in the video. And, of course, don't forget to check out the ESG Research chart, which forecasts digital archiving capacity through 2012. |