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Archiving with Optical Media - A Critical Component of Archive Solutions
Archive Solutions must offer compliant data storage providing extremely resilient, long-term storage capabilities that meet mandated regulatory compliance initiatives. Hence, the best Archive Media must meet stringent requirements associated with professional archive systems. These requirements include:
Media Longevity
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- Permanent, long-life media (50 years or greater)
- Highly stable data recording platform
- Robust drives and libraries
- Data Authenticity
- Unalterable, true WORM
- Compliance with regulatory mandates
- Removability / Portability
- Removable media facilitating disaster recovery
- Supporting offsite vaulting
- Supporting offsite data replication
- Removable media facilitating disaster recovery
- Timely Access To Archived Data
- High random access performance across potentially millions of files
- Low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
- Green solution, providing maximum energy efficiency and minimal environmental impact
- Very low long-term cost
- No media refreshes required
- Data at rest does not consume resources