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Proactive Tape Infrastructure Management: Data Assets Protection & Resource Optimization

Key CIO challenges

With the accelerated growth of:

• Storage capacity (according to IDC, by a factor of 6 between 2006 and 2010)
• The increasing regulatory constraints (SOX, SEC,..)
• Not fully reliable disaster recovery processes,
• The demand of CEOs for better IT governance and improved risks & costs control

CIOs and their IT Operations or Storage Managers are permanently striving for improving their SLAs with effective solutions to protect their data assets while optimizing their operations and storage costs.

Tape Storage is here to stay

Tape storage technologies continue to innovate and to bring to the market cost effective solutions to match the optimization challenges and the main customer requests:

• New archiving and data retention constraints (emails, fixed content, dematerialization…)
• ncreased reliability of disaster recovery processes

Tape storage infrastructures are at the heart of large IT data centers and are going to stay. They contain today even more critical information assets for the enterprise.

Consequently, this is essential to implement efficient solutions to ensure proactive management and full ongoing control of the tape infrastructure environment, in order to answer to the key CIO challenges and to the demands of their IT Operations and Storage Managers:

• Keep a permanent global & proactive view on the infrastructure
• Check optimal use, replace failing equipment and media at the right time to avoid the loss of vital information for the enterprise.

The StorSentryTM solution

Hi-Stor, with more than 10 years of R&D, innovation and success in software storage management solutions, has been delivering the StorSentryTM solution since end 2006 to Fortune 500 US and major European companies. StorSentryTM, the tape infrastructure management solution, has been selected by large data centers sites worldwide, like Ascent Media, Bouygues Telecom, Dassault, EADS, Finanz IT, Orange, Red Bee BBC, Turner Broadcasting Systems.

StorSentryTM brings to large IT data centers a simple and proactive solution to manage efficiently their tape data assets, to monitor and prevent the data loss risks and to take the best optimization decisions for their tape storage infrastructure.

StorSentryTM is the unique solution available on the market with such a wide support of tape storage hardware and software environments and such a rich set of information gathered on the quality of tape storage media, equipment and data flows.

Key results with StorSentry

StorSentryTM delivers results & savings:

• Visibility and in depth view on the tape storage infrastructure
• Significant reduction of critical data loss, and of tape storage media & drive downtime
• ROI acceleration for the tape infrastructure investments, and optimization of the human and equipment operations costs
• Improved Service Level Agreements
• Better capacity planning