Solution: Tiered Storage and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Challenge

Implement a cost-effective tiered storage system to protect and manage high-value data throughout its lifecycle, serving business continuity requirements and supporting Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) initiatives.
Solution

Deploy a tiered storage system using an intelligent SAN infrastructure consisting of an iQ1000 Fibre Channel Storage System and J1000 Fibre Channel Expansion Enclosure for primary storage, a J1200 SATA Expansion Enclosure for secondary storage and CaminoSoft ILM application software to manage different classes of data. Using this solution IT administrators can improve availability of their data while holding down storage costs by automating the migration of data to different storage tiers based on pre-defined policies and usage patterns.
Benefits

  • Enables the creation of highly affordable infrastructures that deliver policy-based applications that manage and safeguard valuable data throughout its productive lifespan.
  • Support ILM requirements to achieve maximum information availability and data protection, moving production files via policy to the most effective storage - regardless of location and without distance limitations.
  • Allows administrators the opportunity to automate the movement of data that has not been accessed over time, to lower cost storage.
Implementation


ILM Solution Brief
iQ1000 data sheet
J1200 data sheet
iQstor Volume Manager-based Virtualization (VMV) data sheet
iQstor System Manager data sheet
Checklist

iQstor’s iQ1000 Storage System is a self-contained Fibre Channel storage system that brings an intelligent and highly-available solution to address the data needs of small and mid-sized companies. Read More

iQstor's J1200 Expansion Enclosure provides SATA expansion capability to the company’s iQ1000 Storage System as well as bringing administrators a modular approach to deploying tiered storage solutions for applications that require storage with varying performance, availability and cost characteristics. Read More

iQstor's System Manager is an embedded wizard based configuration tool that is included on every iQ1000 Storage System. With simple point-and-click operations to configure and monitor storage resources, the policy-based System Manager enables storage administrators to dynamically configure their hardware from a single management browser. Read More

CaminoSoft's Information Lifecycle Management solutions for Microsoft Windows and Novell NetWare include comprehensive administrative policies that allow organizations to reclaim storage resources, dramatically reduce backup and recovery time, control file retention, and achieve regulatory compliance. Read More.

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