Tarmin Technologies introduced their new archiving and storage software optimized for secondary storage environments -- GridBank. This new enterprise-class archiving and storage software enables organizations running Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, or virtual servers (VMWare or HyperV) to reduce their storage costs.
With file-based data expected to be the largest percentage of all data stored by 2010, the high cost of primary storage, and the multitude of government regulations on data retention, the pressure on IT to lower budgets, control costs, and satisfy regulators is increased. GridBank solves these problems by reducing the cost and complexity of retaining, managing, and securely accessing unstructured data. The new solutions helps with satisfying compliance requirements by ensuring secure, long-term data retention, e-discovery support, and fast search and retrieval of data. GridBank also provides automation to increase productivity and reduce storage and IT costs.
According to the IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), digital archiving of data is growing at a 58% CAGR. With 70 percent of archived data being file-based unstructured data, ESG forecasts that digital data archiving will reach 90,000 petabytes (PB) in 2012, up from 9,197 PB in 2007 (Nov 2007).
“GridBank provides a policy-driven, object-based archival solution that automates the movement of file-based data from expensive primary storage to much lower cost secondary storage,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst at ESG. “GridBank also delivers the data retention, data preservation, audit tracking, security, and rapid content search and retrieval that lowers the cost of compliance and e- discovery. GridBank’s comprehensive integration of an active archival and intelligent storage platform means Tarmin can help solve customers’ archiving and information lifecycle management needs.”
E-discovery, search and audit software
In order to optimize the business value of archived data and to leverage GridBank’s active archival functionality to lower the costs associated with compliance, governance, and regulation, GridBank offers extensive searching, sharing and, e-discovery capabilities.
As part of the creation of objects in GridBank, contents of all files are fully indexed. This indexing, as well as the metadata associated with each object, allows GridBank to provide a very fast search and retrieval capability.
GridBank’s online client allows users to search content using an Internet-style search engine. Searches are executed across archives wherever they are physically or geographically located. By adding files displayed in the search results to the user’s shopping basket, copies are downloaded to the user’s individual archive. If files are part of an ongoing legal investigation, a legal hold can be placed to prevent deletion. Users are authenticated via integration with corporate directory structures and data access policies are role-based, securing data from unauthorized access.
To ensure companies meet their legal and compliance requirements, GridBank includes a comprehensive audit management facility. From the day data is migrated with GridBank, everything that happens to the archived object is tracked, including access, data movement from physical device to physical device, date of migration, and date of shredding.
GridBank will be generally available in early 2009 from Tarmin and its network of value channel partners.
