Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage

Improve Archive Performance

Corporations are under growing pressure to cost effectively meet the business service level requirements of internal stakeholders—including legal, information security, regulatory supervision, and end-user. Business service level requirements for archiving include end-user search times, time for recall, and presentation of electronically stored information as part of an electronic discovery (eDiscovery) process, time periods for retention of content, and legal holds. With archived file and email data projected to grow 55% CAGR and 73% CAGR respectively from 2007 to 2012 (Figure 1), both storage costs and the operational burdens to manage this growth will be significant.

Figure 1

eDiscovery and information search of the corporate archive are necessitating faster access in order to meet litigation requests and business objectives surrounding information retention and availability. Companies also need to provide appropriate back-up and availability services for archived content which has been identified as a business record. In the past, hierarchical storage management could not meet these requirements because storage policies were not application or content aware, and lacked the ability to tie back to business service objectives. Leaving organizations with the:

• Inability to dynamically match older or infrequently accessed content to cost- and performance-appropriate devices; instead, corporations must bear the labor costs of manual data migration, or the expense of leaving content on higher-tier storage
• High cost of conducting eDiscovery and supervision via slow devices, such as WORM/CAS devices
• Increased user frustration and lost productivity resulting from slow access to content, as infrequently accessed content is typically stored on the same disk as frequently accessed content

Mimosa NearPoint™ Tiered Storage Application:

Strengthens the Next-Generation NearPoint Archiving Platform

Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage provides corporations with the ability to provision storage devices with different costs, response times, throughput, and availability.  This application further augments Mimosa’s next-generation archiving platform to give customers even more granular control over IT costs and archive performance. The solution supports retention and on-demand access to large volumes of information with unmatched performance and radically lowers costs. Customers enjoy savings across hardware, software, and IT operations

Learn More about Tiered Storage Solutions