EYE 2 EYE OFFERS ARCHIVING AND COMPLIANCE SOLUTION
"An answer to significant ILM question for IT professionals" - Abrevity
"Versatile solutions for electronic archiving" - Perennity
"Secure and longterm data archiving" - Assureon
Archiving - Compliance - ILM
Archiving
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File Archiving moves the files from expensive disk storage to less expensive media, but allows information to be always available. In effect, the system makes all secondary storage devices available as an extension of the primary storage infrastructure. Even though the files are removed from primary storage, navigation and recovery of the archived data is transparent to the user, who uses the same tools to access the archived data as they would for their normal online files.
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For business, legal, and regulatory requirements, the data must be available for many years or even decades. Thus, longevity of the media, drive technology, and data filesystems must be weighed when designing the archiving system.
Compliance
- Data can be both an asset and a liability. Depending on external or internal compliance regulations, files such as .doc, .xls, .ppt, . jpg etc, might need to be archived for a specified period, other data might need to be deleted. Clearly a File Archiving system needs to flexible to allow for both compliance regulations and individual requirements of the organisation. The data retension rules for the files must be flexible enough to allow for the files to be migrated to key storage media and deleted, when they are no longer required.
- Compliance is not just a function of data retention. It is also a function of data privacy and data auditability. A compliant archive protects files from unauthorised access and at the same time, monitors and records in an audit trail all authorised access and movement of files in the archive.
- Failure to provide this information can involve lengthy prison sentences and fining of corporate executives and corporations.
- Data Regulation examples : HIPPA, SOX, SEC17 - 4a, FDA Rule 21 CFR, etc.
ILM
- The process of managing business information throughout its lifecycle from conception through disposal, across different storage media, within the constraints of the business process. In addition to focusing on the general characteristics of data such as age, size and file type, ILM has added intelligence to look into the content of the files for managing the information - based on information’s changing value.
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