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Archiving Defined - Key Professional Archive Solution Mandates
Data archiving provides a cost effective solution that addresses these challenges. Key capabilities that must be addressed include:
- Data Authenticity
- Secure hardware WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) storage as provided by optical media
- Ability to withstand chain-of-evidence scrutiny in court proceedings
- Secure hardware WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) storage as provided by optical media
- Data Permanence
- Worry-free archive media with an extended life expectancy (50 years or greater)
- Impervious to environmental factors (temperature, humidity, handling, etc)
- Disaster-level durability – submersion, dust/debris, terrorism (EMP), etc
- Data Access
- Immediate random file level access (not requiring restoration to magnetic disk from streaming devices such as tape)
- Data Portability
- 3-2-1 Archiving & Data Protection Best Practices (3 copies, on 2 media types, with 1 removable or remote)
- Facilitate online, offline, replicated, off-site, and/or secure vaulted copies.
- Low Total Cost of Ownership
- Low cost per GB for archive storage
- Low administrative overhead
- Eliminating Tier-1 costs associated with archived data, such as redundant data backups and use of higher cost Tier-1 storage resources
- Low power consumption – data at rest on media does not require any power
