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Information Lifecycle Management
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It starts with user practices not just throwing a solution like, scanners, SANS and programs at the challenge of managing and storing your data. SPSI and our solutions help you take back control of your data.
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a comprehensive approach to managing the flow of an information system's data and associated metadata from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.
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How do you classify information? How do you assign policies to archive information? What solutions are available to assist in complying with today's regulatory environment? Where do you start? SPSI has an extensive set of services that can help businesses meet these challenges.
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Applications, databases, email servers and even Network folder the data inside these systems will continue to grow unless you take control now.
Archive solutions are designed to identify data that is no longer being accessed regularly and move the data to an archive, where it remains available if needed. Because applications can span multiple database systems and even multiple platforms, select application and database archive solutions can recognize related data from multiple systems and archive it together this is where we come in
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CommonStore for Exchange Server
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IBM's enterprise content management portfolio products deliver robust, integrated solutions to support the archival of business critical information, helping organizations cost-effectively manage the growth and performance of their email systems while meeting their governance and compliance goals. IBM DB2(R) CommonStore for Exchange Server (DB2 CommonStore) provides comprehensive messaging system archival and retention management capabilities for corresponding messaging systems. DB2 CommonStore provides automated policy-driven and specifically tailored user-driven archive capabilities, with easy retrieval from the standard client user interface of specific messaging systems (such as Microsoft(R) Outlook, Outlook Web Access Clients). After archiving policies are defined and implemented, major problem areas created by the rapid growth of messaging systems can be tackled such as performance issues, increasing storage requirements, operational difficulties, and compliance and regulatory e-mail record-keeping challenges. When this solution is used with IBM enterprise content management repositories, it is possible to access an archived messaging system's content not only from messaging system clients, but also from archive repository clients and from other applications using an archive repository's open application programming interface. This enables content that is buried in messaging systems to be leveraged by other applications. Its tight integration with DB2 Content Manager and DB2 Records Manager products delivers records enablement for an archived messaging system's content. DB2 CommonStore, together with Tivoli(R) Storage Manager, delivers enhanced storage device support which provides flexibility to deploy the appropriate devices depending on the lifecycle value of the content.
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Customer Benefits
- Manage growth of main messaging system storage requirements by periodic archiving
- Manage a document's life cycle from creation to destruction by leveraging Records Management capabilities
- Extend mail server storage with back-end archive management storage with seamless integration
- Increase operational and administrative efficiencies by reduced backup and restore window cycle times
- Improve and control mail server performance by off-loading infrequently accessed content
- Increase end-user productivity with fast search and retrieval from archive source, even after years, simply from messaging system or archive system client interfaces
- Exploit virtual storage management system, deploy the appropriate device, depending on the life-cycle value of the content
- Establish a scalable and secure back-end archive management repository which is virtually unlimited in growth
- Enable easier messaging system version-to-version upgrades and server consolidation
- Keep e-mail records based on regulatory and legal requirements
- Unleash the content buried in messaging systems, leverage it along with the other content types for use by other applications
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IBM DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino
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IBM's enterprise content management portfolio products deliver, robust, integrated solutions to support the archival of business critical information, helping organizations cost-effectively manage the growth and performance of their e-mail systems while meeting their governance and compliance goals. IBM DB2(R) CommonStore for Lotus(R) Domino(R) (DB2 CommonStore) provides comprehensive messaging system archival and retention management capabilities for corresponding messaging systems. DB2 CommonStore provides automated policy-driven and dynamically user-driven archive capabilities, with easy retrieval from the standard client user interface of specific messaging systems (for example, Lotus Notes(R), Domino Web Access). When archiving policies are defined and implemented, major problem areas created by the rapid growth of messaging systems can be tackled. Problem areas, such as performance issues, increasing storage requirements, operational difficulties, and compliance and regulatory e-mail record-keeping challenges. When this solution is used with IBM enterprise content management repositories, it is possible to access a archived messaging system's content not only from messaging system clients, but also from archive repository clients and from other applications using an archive repository's open application programming interface. This enables content that is buried in messaging systems to be leveraged by other applications. Its tight integration with DB2 Content Manager and DB2 Records Manager products delivers records enablement for an archived messaging system's content. DB2 CommonStore, together with IBM Tivoli(R) Storage Manager, delivers enhanced storage device support which provides flexibility to deploy the appropriate devices depending on the lifecycle value of the content.
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Customer Benefits
- Manage growth of main messaging system storage requirements by periodic archiving
- Manage a document's life cycle from creation to destruction by leveraging Records Management capabilities
- Extend mail server storage with back-end archive management storage with seamless integration
- Increase operational and administrative efficiencies by reduced backup/restore window cycle times
- Improve and control mail server performance by off-loading infrequently accessed content
- Increase end-user productivity with fast search and retrieval from archive source, even after years, simply from messaging system or archive system client interfaces
- Exploit virtual storage management system, deploy the appropriate device, depending on the life-cycle value of the content
- Establish a scalable and secure back-end archive management repository which is virtually unlimited in growth
- Enable easier messaging system version-to-version upgrades and server consolidation
- Keep e-mail records based on regulatory and legal requirements
- Unleash the content buried in messaging systems, leverage it along with the other content types for use by other applications
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a powerful storage software suite that addresses
the challenges of complex storage management in distributed heterogeneous
environments. It protects and manages a broad range of data, from workstations
to the corporate server environment. More than 44 different operating platforms
are supported, using a consistent graphical user interface.
Tivoli Storage Manager provides:
- Centralized administration for data and storage management
- Fully automated data protection
- Efficient management of information growth
- High-speed automated server recovery
- Full compatibility with hundreds of storage devices, as well as LAN, WAN, and
SAN infrastructures
- Optional customized backup solutions for major groupware, enterprise
resource planning (ERP) applications, and database products
Tivoli Storage Manager is the premier choice for complete storage management
in mixed platform environments. It is used by more than 80 of the Fortune 100
companies, and it protects more than one million systems around the world.
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Storage Area Network (SAN)
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Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.
Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is utilized for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.
IBM System Storage portfolio offers the industrys broadest range of storage solutionsincluding disk, tape, SAN, software, financial and services offeringsenabling companies to create long-term solutions that can be tailored to their business needs. IBM System Storage tiered disk, tape and SAN switch solutions provide a wide variety of choices to align and move data to cost-optimized storage based on policies, matching the storage solution with the service level requirements and the value of the data.
Confidently protect your strategic information assets and efficiently comply with regulatory and security requirements with the unrivaled breadth of storage solutions from IBM. IBM SAN directors and routers provide metro and global connectivity between sites over Internet Protocol, IP networks. IBM SAN extension solutions include data compression and encryption services to help protect your data in flight between your secure data centers.
IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standards-based business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world
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Network Attached Storage (NAS)
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Network attached storage, or NAS, is shared storage attached to a local area network. A NAS server is a storage appliance that consists of a high performance file server that plugs into a LAN. Unlike a general-purpose server, such as a Unix®, Linux® or Windows® server, a NAS server is a specialized appliance optimized for file serving, i.e., storing, retrieving, and serving files in a heterogeneous protocol environment. The power of a NAS solution is that, in an environment with many servers running different operating systems with fragmented storage islands, storage of data can be centralized onto a NAS device, as can the security, management, and backup of the data.
NAS was developed to address problems with direct attached storage (DAS), which included the effort required to administer and maintain "server farms", and the lack of scalability, reliability, availability, and performance. NAS offers significant ease of use, providing heterogeneous data sharing and helping organizations automate and simplify their data management.
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The IBM industry-leading portfolio of records management and content management products, solutions, and services is designed to provide cost-effective means of addressing the functional requirements of laws, regulations, and records management policies. At the heart of this portfolio is DB2(R) Records Manager, together with DB2 Content Manager and related content management products, which are designed to deliver sophisticated electronic record-keeping capability across multiple business solutions, including e-mail and document management.
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DB2 Records Manager delivers significant enhancements to all aspects of electronic records management capabilities, featuring:
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- Enhanced security model to handle classified records
- File plan and administration improvements
- Easier integration with business applications
- High performance operations for large scale implementations
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DB2 Records Manager for Messaging may be used to apply formal records management control to e-mail and other messaging applications. This provides capabilities such as time and event-based records retention, and the ability to suspend (place a legal hold on records). This product is to be used only to apply records management capabilities to messaging and messaging archival applications. Any other usage requires a full copy of DB2 Records Manager.
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Document routing and workflow enhancements
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Document routing is enhanced to include decision points, actions, action lists, parallel routing, and Line of Business access nodes. In addition, a new graphical builder within the system administration client enables non-technical business users to define document routing processes.
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FileNet Records Manager is designed to uniquely combine content, process and connectivity to automate and streamline all records-based activities, eliminate burdensome end-user participation, enforce compliance and create business advantage through a compelling return on investment.
FileNet's Records Manager, powered by FileNet ZeroClick, helps address regulatory compliance challenges and delivers tangible ROI by:
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- Reducing risk by ensuring consistent policy enforcement through automation of the entire records management lifecycle process
- Lowering operational costs by reducing storage, discovery, training and infrastructure expenses
- Improving productivity by automating routine business user and records management tasks and enabling staff to focus on higher value activities
- Reduces risk through enforced compliance by consistently capturing and managing records according to established RIM policies
- Integrates with the FileNet P8 platform, which provides interoperability with the widest selection of database, operating system, storage, security and Web server environments in the industry
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