EMC has announced the general availability of EMC InfoArchive, an application agnostic archive product suite that preserves the value of enterprise information all the while helping customers accelerate their journey to the 3rd Platform of IT. InfoArchive is based on open standards, which allows customers to address the large volumes of structured data, unstructured content, print streams, and xml (from a multitude of applications) at scale across the enterprise.
EMC has announced the general availability of EMC InfoArchive, an application agnostic archive product suite that preserves the value of enterprise information all the while helping customers accelerate their journey to the 3rd Platform of IT. InfoArchive is based on open standards, which allows customers to address the large volumes of structured data, unstructured content, print streams, and xml (from a multitude of applications) at scale across the enterprise.
As the cloud, social, mobile and Big Data mega trends continue to grow at a substantial rate, organizations of all sizes are developing next-generation applications and better harnessing Big Data analytics to transform business. Customers are concurrently facing significant budgetary challenges as they move toward the 3rd Platform all the while most of their existing resources are busy maintaining 2nd Platform investments. With InfoArchive, customers can rationalize their application environment and decommission legacy applications, which results in significant savings as well as freeing up budget to move to the 3rd Platform. In addition, the information within these legacy applications can be archived and thus available for retrieval when needed for compliance reasons.
InfoArchive Technology features:
- Active archiving, which enables content and data to be archived periodically from applications that are still being actively used within the enterprise. This reduces storage, backup and infrastructure costs and improves application performance. Archived information is managed in accordance with current compliance regulations and remains accessible to users of any business application.
- Application decommissioning, which reduces costs associated with managing legacy applications and operating environments by extracting application data, managing it against current compliance policies and ensuring access to support business reporting, discovery and audit.
Due to the exponential growth of information, data, and cloud technologies, traditional archiving methods are becoming an obsolete, causing IT leaders to re-evaluate their storage and data management systems. To address these challenges, enterprises are taking advantage of InfoArchive as a strategic approach to information lifecycle management that focuses on IT optimization, cost reduction and information governance. In addition, InfoArchive is designed to keep information securely archived as well as the appropriate levels of compliance applied to individual data sets, all the while making sure that controlled access is extended to qualifying users within or outside the enterprise.
Additional benefits include:
- Reduce the risk of long term information retention associated with regulatory and policy compliance within a single consolidated archive
- Improve application performance and reduce data center costs by archiving high-volume static information
- Eliminate the overhead of legacy and duplicate applications while retaining valuable information in an easily accessible unified archive
- Reduce costs associated with the management of unstructured content, structured data and hybrid information records.
For more information, visit the EMC InfoArchive website.
