Intelligent and ‘affordable’ archive

CommVault has announced a new content based retention solution that enables enterprises to keep only data that is important to the business and move beyond the costly and commonly used “keep everything” approach to data management. Leveraging Simpana® Reference Copy can reduce long term storage costs and capacity needs by up to 70 percent when compared to traditional approaches to data retention. Organisations can make sense of their content, streamline discovery to improve insight and make smart decisions about how they want to retain it, while at the same time making cloud storage from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Rackspace a practical reality through the industry’s most advanced data classification and retention capabilities.

Legacy solutions that focus on backup or force customers to archive irrelevant data, without compliance, evidentiary or other organisational value, increase overall costs and risk and inhibit cloud adoption. Traditional archive platforms are cumbersome and make it difficult to secure, find and recover siloed data across the enterprise. Long term data retention approaches need to be automated, flexible and granular. According to Gartner, most organisations (62%) still do not utilise any specific tools to help them understand and to make decisions on the retention/management of their unstructured data. Archiving is starting to better penetrate organisations, but this is often just moving the problem from primary storage to a less expensive archive.

CommVault® Intelligent Archive Addresses Information Governance, Cost Concerns
Simpana Reference Copy addresses these emerging requirements by leveraging the intelligence and efficiency of Simpana ContentStore to collect, organise, index and classify data based on user defined policies. Once data is centralised in the ContentStore, CommVault’s hardware agnostic virtual repository, Reference Copy provides automated, granular policies for tiering, retention and classification that allow business to keep only the most relevant files and emails. Enabling cost effective online long-term storage, centralised search and self service access for analytics and eDiscovery make Simpana software ideal for highly regulated or litigious industries that must retain data for seven or more years, such as healthcare, government and education.

Accelerating the Journey to the Cloud
Reference Copy’s ability to reduce the overall cost for online capacity and data transfers makes cloud storage more affordable, secure and easier to manage. Business defined policies identify data to be retained and reduce the amount of data being moved into and out of the cloud. When used in tandem with Simpana 10’s content indexing and search capabilities, which provide detailed previews, Reference Copy can help provide access to archived content without needing to access the cloud. The efficiencies of Reference Copy combined with Simpana software’s native connectivity with more than a dozen cloud platforms, including certifications for the new virtual tape library appliance introduced today from Amazon Web Services and integration for AWS Glacier, can speed the adoption of cloud storage for all enterprises.

Optimising Data Retention with CommVault Consulting Services
CommVault Consulting Services helps clients architect management environments and deploy long term retention, compliance and cloud strategies to optimise their data and information management environments. Two of the newest archiving consulting services now available from CommVault include:
• Data Classification & Archive Policy Design – Synthesises legacy archive strategies with current business, compliance, records retention, and eDiscovery requirements to help transform a client’s traditional operation into an intelligent archive.
• Electronic Records Management Design – Provides assessment to assist with designing and recommending technical and business requirements for records retention management and potential eDiscovery actions.