Data
Archiving on
the NMSO
It Just Got a Whole Lot Easier to meet your objectives, your deadlines and your budget.
Open
Storage Solutions® Delivers
Content-Addressable
Storage with
EMC
Centera
First
Things First
EMC Centera enables you to meet strict requirements for electronic data
storage it is designed for the most stringent of regulated environments.
Centera captures and preserves original content and ensures complete,
reliable integrity for the life of your archived information. Centera
enforces organizational and application policies for information retention
and disposition intrinsic in storage and by doing so completes the information
chain of custody. It ensures corporate accountability and reduces the
costs of legal discovery and litigation support and its easy to manage.
Sound like a paradox? Read on.
How
It Works
The
writing and reading of records to the EMC Centera are done via the software
applications, such as email archiving, report management, or document
management
systems. The software application uses a set of specific instructions
(APIs) that requests the EMC Centera to store, retrieve and delete records.
Each record stored in the EMC Centera has two components: the content
and its associated content descriptor file (CDF) that is directly linked
to the stored object (business record, email, etc.) A digital fingerprint
derived from the content itself is the content's locator (content address).
The CDF contains metadata record attributes (e.g., creation date,time,
and format) and the object's content address. The CDF is used for access
to, and management of, the record. The CDF is also used as the directory
or pointer to the stored record. Within this CDF, the application wil
l
assign a retention period for each individual business record.
The benefit of content addressing is single-instance storage. If multiple people try to store the same business record, it will only be stored once with the multiple users having pointers to the common object. Thus, it is possible to have multiple CDFs with different retention periods, pointing to the same record. EMC Centera will permit deletion of a pointer to a record upon expiration of the retention period. Once the last pointer to a record has been so deleted, The object will be eliminated (and optionally shredded.)
EMC
Centera is available on the NMSO.
Make IT easy. Get it on the NMSO.
Take
the Next Step
To discover how your regulated agency can benefit from EMC Centera, contact
us.
NMSO # E60EJ-04000T/002/EJ
Make IT easy.
Get IT
on the NMSO.
Get IT from Open Storage Solutions.
For more information about the Archival Storage NMSO, contact Open Storage Solutions at 800.387.3419 or at info@openstore.com
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