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Showing posts with label Information Archive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Information Archive. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Information Archive - Part II
IBM has discontinued Information Archive. We were forced to purchase IA disks because we didn't have time to plan a migration away from IA. Our support experience with IBM was bad at best. It took two weeks and declaring a "Crit Sit" with IBM to get this resolved. Having a great deal of remorse for choosing IA. We will begin plans to move away from IBM for our storage needs.
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.
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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