Andrea Kurz
Partner Manager iTernity GmbH
Object storage and software defined archiving:
How to design future proof, cost efficient and
flexible solutions
Specialized in compliant archiving
Established 2004
Headquarter: Freiburg – Germany
International representations in France, Italy and USA
Worldwide installations in various industries
Company data is extremely important
High damage potential due to loss of
data
Following issues could be the cause of damage risks:
Tax requirements, e.g. General Tax Act (GTA)
Legal requirements
Industry related requirements
Liability risks
Industry perspective:
User perspective:
Companies with more than 200 employees
Hospitals
Customers from controlled markets (e.g.
Pharma, Finance, Energy…)
Companies with high liability requirements,
e.g. automotive suppliers etc.
Public authorities
Everyone using SAP/ERP systems
Everyone using DMS/ECM systems
How does iCAS help you as a customer?
Reduction of company risks
Due to better protection of important data
Securing data - preventing „silent data corruption“ Higher flexibility in terms of future IT-projects
iCAS adapts to future changes in your infrastructure Higher Availability
Due to Virtualisation of the archive
By migrating backend data
Lower TCO
iCAS is transferable to new hardware
Efficient use of your storage infrastructure
Investment protection
Economical migration
Requirements for a compliant solution are based on various regulations
(e.g. DCC, GTA, Euro-SOX, General Administrative Law Act, Basel II, VATA ...)
Data must be tamper-proof
Data cannot be deleted (WORM)
Data must be kept for a specified period (retention)
Data must be able to be migrated to an alternative
media
Access to individual archived objects must be possible at all times
Dynamic Online Data e.g. Databases File-Services Unstructured Application Data Unstructured ERP (SAP..) Mail (Symantec, Autonomy..) PACS (GE, AGFA..) ECM (Opentext..) Other
Characteristic of Application data:
Compliance is important Unstructured fixed content Long retention periods
Huge growing data amount (PBs) Cold data
iCAS provides:
Compliance
Retention management / WORM
Certified interfaces to more then 65 ISVs
Perfect fit for
iCAS competitors:
NetApp Snaplock
EMC Centera (sold ~600PB)
Hitachi HCAP
Dell DX (discontinued)
IBM IA (discontinued)
iCAS Market Segment
4 of the top 5 applications, most responsible for data growth, are iCAS relevant applications.
-Applications
Storage Media / Technology
dynamic
dynamic
mostly constant
Data
1. year 5. year 10. year 30. year
Business Applications
ERP, CRM, ECM, File Services, E-Mail, PACS, e.g. OpenText, d.velop, Optimal-Systems, Symantec EV, CommVault or custom applications
Business Processes
iCAS Archive
WORM function, retention management,
encryption, self-healing and compression iCAS & IT
Infrastructure ISV Application
IBM & iCAS Archive Design
SAS / iSCSI / FC / NAS Application layer ECM, DMS, Mail … Storage layer
JBOD
SAN
NAS
CloudiCAS Archive layer
Cluster
read write
iCAS for Long Term Archiving
SECURITY
iCAS provides security for your archive data.
FLEXIBILITY
iCAS provides you with the highest flexibility for the future of your
archive infrastructure.
COST EFFICIENCY
iCAS provides you various benefits for the lowest TCO.
“iCAS is a modern archive-infrastructure and fully meets the legal requirements.”
certified by Dr. Ivo Geis
– Lawyer for IT- and Information Law
KPMG has certified iCAS upon accordance with the legal requirements for tamper proof long term archiving.
iCAS meets legal requirements:
iCAS ISV support
iCAS has broad support from a variety of
software companies, such as:
OpenText
Symantec
Saperion
Docuware
Easy
ELO
SAP
MS SharePoint
Commvault
Kendox
Autonomy
Heilig & Schubert
Optimal Systems
d.velop
KGS
Ceyoniq
SER
GE Healthcare
Visus
PerceptiveHighest security standards:
WORM Functionality with patented
Content-Storage-Container Technology (CSC)
Save data archiving via 512 bit Hash code (HMAC SHA512)
Integrated compression and encryption (AES256)
Based on industry standards (Webservice)
U.S. DoD- compliant data shredder
High availability via cluster support
iCAS is able to archive data synchronously on two separate storage devices.
Various technologies could be used at the same time e.g. SAN and NAS.
This functionality provides security against the replication of logical failures of single storage devices or administrational failures.
ECM, DMS, ERP, Mail, Pacs …
HP / iCAS
ECM, DMS, ERP, Mail, Pacs …
HP / iCAS
iCAS monitors replicated storage systems continuously to identify and repair
broken objects.
Because of the hash value based
software of iCAS, the solution is able to decide whether an object is valid or broken.
Investment protection through storage independence
License model based on archive size in TB
iCAS software license is not bound to a hardware system
Replication of archive without additional iCAS license costs Easy data migration in a live environment
Highly scalable from GB to PB– the license can be adjusted to the future demands – pay as you go
- Storage independence – free choice of hardware (internal
disks, external low, midrange or high-end disk systems)
Low management costs due to integration into existing
infrastructures (management, backup, storage, virtualization remains unchanged)
1.
• SECURITY
• Technology (WORM, AES-encryption, Data-Shredder ..) • ISV Support (Opentext, Symantec …)
• KPMG certification / Software Escrow
• Reference Installation for all industries available
2.
• FLEXIBILITY
• Hardware Independent
• Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, XEN ..) • Scalability
3.
• COST EFFICENCY
• Investment protection • Fast and easy data migration • License model
• Low TCO
I look forward to seeing you at our
booth!
Andrea Kurz
Partner Manager iTernity GmbH
Telefon +49 (0)172 31 684 66 E-Mail andrea.kurz@iTernity.com Web www.iTernity.com