Archive

Archiving is a process that exists independent of backup as part of a broader, business level data retention strategy. In this instance archiving is focused on helping customers reduce storage costs by moving data off of higher cost primary disk to a lower cost storage tier.

Aserdiv’s archiving solutions minimize risk, control costs, and increase content reuse. Now you can focus on what matter most – active production information. Organizations have their reasons for archiving their business data whether its email or filed archiving.

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
• Legal Discovery and Investigations
• Storage Management

Regulatory Compliance

Comply with regulatory standards without adding complexity to your network

Regulatory compliance standards such as SOX, HIPAA, and PCI DSS are part of today's IT management landscape. They dictate business requirements above and beyond standard operating procedures--but they don't have to create additional burdens or complexity for your network.

Compliance security solutions can rein in some of the confusion surrounding compliance issues, especially with regards to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability your data and applications. Our solutions can help you achieve compliance while also helping you secure your application infrastructure and keep your business secure, fast, and available.

Business benefits of using regulatory compliance solutions include:

• Increased customer trust.
• More peace of mind.
• Reduced risks of noncompliance.

Backup and Recovery

Backup and recovery is one of the most important components of data protection. If data is changed unexpectedly, a system compromised or a site lost, backup enables intellectual property, sales data, and other business information to be recovered.

Without backup and recovery, the potential for liability, missed revenue, and lost productivity is staggering. Unfortunately, building a strategy that meets business needs while balancing costs is not always easy.

Key Points:

• 10x faster backup and recovery
• 95% (20:1) less storage with native deduplication
• 50% less tape infrastructure – drives and media
• 75% less management overhead

Business Continuity

Enable higher availability and affordable disaster recovery for more of your critical applications and data using simple, cost-effective disk-based solutions.

You can't generate revenue unless your business is up and running. Across a spectrum of recovery point and recovery time requirements, business continuity solutions help you maintain application availability during unplanned downtime, enabling you to quickly get back to business in the event of a disaster.

By combining network efficiency, deduplication, and operational simplicity, Aserdiv lowers the overall cost of disk-based disaster recovery. As a result, you can afford to move away from tape and leverage the speed and reliability benefits of a disk-based disaster recovery solution for more of your critical applications and data.

In addition, we help you use your disaster recovery systems for more than just disaster recovery. Using instant, space-efficient clones, you can also accelerate other business functions such as application testing and development, allowing you to increase the return on your infrastructure investment

Key Points:

• Enable asynchronous or synchronous replication for up to zero data loss.
• Recover data and applications in minutes.
• Deploy new capabilities without a large learning curve.
• Reduce administrative, network, and storage costs.
• Boost ROI by using disaster recovery systems for active business use.

Data De-duplication

Aserdiv’s deduplication combines the benefits of granularity, performance, and resiliency to provide you with a significant advantage in the race to provide for ever-increasing storage capacity demands.

Data de-duplication is an important new technology in your struggle to control data proliferation. As data is created, distributed, backed up, and archived, duplicate data objects are stored unabated across all storage tiers. The end result is inefficient utilization of data storage resources.

By eliminating redundant data objects and referencing just the original object, an immediate benefit is obtained through storage space efficiencies. The result is twofold:

• Cost Benefit: Reduced initial storage acquisition cost, or longer intervals between storage capacity upgrades.
• Management Benefit: The ability the store “more” data per storage unit, or retain online data for longer periods of time.

Key Points:

• Utilize minimal system resources - primary data, backup data, and archival data can all be deduplicated with nominal impact on data center operations.
• Schedule deduplication to occur during off-peak times, applications can sustain critical performance but still realize significantly reduced storage capacity requirements.
• Select which datasets to deduplicate with our tools to evaluate those datasets and help point out the areas that will provide the greatest return.
• Perform a full byte-for-byte validation before removing any duplicate data for worry-free deduplication.

Data Security

Secure stored data across your enterprise with Aserdiv’s security solutions that give you control over your data in NAS, DAS, SAN, tape, and iSCSI environments. The advantages of networked data storage technologies such as NAS and SAN are well established, but having your data on a network creates significant security risks.

Aserdiv’s storage security solutions help you address:

• Data privacy requirements
• Regulatory compliance
• Secure storage consolidation
• Secure backup
• Disaster recovery
• Intellectual property protection
• Secure information sharing

Key Points:

• Scale across your enterprise to handle encryption needs in all storage environments
• Leverage the benefits of networked storage and be confident your data assets are secure
• Our solutions include AES-256 encryption, authentication, strong access controls, and crypto-signed logging in a hardened platform
• Deploy in the data path between clients or hosts and the storage device, either inline or attached to a switch

Data Migration

Move files between devices--without downtime and without affecting users

You might need to perform data migration--the process of moving data between storage devices--for any number of reasons, including file server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) consolidations, lease rollovers, platform upgrades, and vendor transitions. These migrations are often costly, time-consuming, and disruptive, and they almost always require service outages and manual reconfiguration of client systems and applications.

Business benefits of using data migration include:

• No client reconfiguration required. This can reduce migration times by as much as 90%, speeding upgrades, consolidations, and storage platform changes.
• No impact on user access.
• Reduced operational overhead.
• No need for stubs, pointers, or log files for data movement. These can reduce availability and add complexity to the backup and restore window.