Simpana® Content Archive Solution
Forward-thinking IT leaders faced with the growing tide of big data and the need to manage legacy data, are taking advantage of content-aware, object-based storage to build on a smarter, more strategic archiving model. CommVault® Simpana® software was designed to help you take control of your content from heterogeneous sources so that the size, cost and risk of data retention and access are reduced. CommVault® Simpana® software provides a versatile data repository that can be integrated heterogeneously across a wide variety of hardware and solutions to help you manage, retain, control and ultimately get the most from your data.
The Business Challenge
Digital content archives are growing at an unprecedented rate. IT departments are struggling to manage and gain insight from big data to provide better heterogeneous lifecycle management. Traditional archiving methods create silos of data that are constrainted to particular storage platforms. This introduces complexity as data is required to tier and that compromises flexibility in hardware choice and ultimately data management. CommVault Simpana software allows you to intelligently archive content from a variety of sources, achieve unmatched data reduction and scalability through a variety of different declaration and capture operations that operate above most hardware technologies including disk and tape.
A Smarter Archive for Big Data with Simpana
The Simpana® software Content Archive solution meets these challenges head-on with a robust and common content archive interface approach. Its interface integrates with a range of data sources using HTTP/REST based environments to intelligently collect data, simplify management, and reduce the costs of data retention. Most requirements for enhanced security, encryption and compliance are exceeded.
- Unify Data Retention – Reduce complexity with a single platform featuring encryption, compression, deduplication, retention and data aging managed from a simplified interface for data retention.
- Integrated enterprise search, compliance and e-discovery options boost the value of the data retained within the Simpana software Content Archive solution.
- Consolidated Backup with Archive – Integrated single pass backup and archive provides content preserved views of data while taking advantage of storage management features.
- Reduce Management Costs – Administrators can easily deploy, setup, and manage large scale distributed data environments easier than ever while enabling Simpana software as the broker to the collection and retention of data.
- Support Heterogeneous Hardware Platforms – Traditional approaches are tied to specific hardware platforms that limit flexibility. Simpana software unlocks the use of all hardware throughout the lifecycle of the data archive.
- Enable Retention Lifecycle Management – Provide analytics and reporting throughout the creation, retention and deletion of all content.
Use Cases
Big data growth impacts all industries and departments, for every use case across the globe. CommVault Simpana software's powerful architecture provides flexible options to address the diverse needs of some of the highest growth vertical markets, such as:
- Healthcare
- Digital Media
- Digital film
- Broadcasts
- Streaming video and audio
- Financial Institutions
- Financial transactions
- Applications
- Checks and deposit images
- Insurance Companies
- Insurance claims
- Photos
- Policies
- Service Providers
- Telecommunications (cable & satellite)
- Customer billing and usage records
- Downloadable media content