Tuesday, August 9, 2011

IBM's Information Archive

Just thought I'd throw this out there.  We installed IBM's Information Archive in February and it is a very powerful tool for us.  In a nutshell, Information Archive (IA) is a SAN that attaches via fibre to our System i.  We use it exclusively as tier 2 storage for our ECM images but it performs like tier 1 storage. 

IA has everything built in to protect our images.  But unlike WORM optical devices, we can implement our retention policies to purge data from IA and tape!  A big thanks goes out to Genus LLC and Ron Henkhaus from IBM for their roles in our implementation.

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