StorHouse Archiving for File System Applications

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FileTek's StorHouse® Archiving for File System Applications is a low-cost, easy-to-use solution for archiving and rapidly retrieving today's escalating volume of e-mail, voice mail, medical images, spreadsheets, customer statements, word processing documents, and other digitized data in file format. The system provides unique benefits that distinguish it from hierarchical storage management (HSM) products and file system-based archiving alternatives, including:

	Performance - Regardless of file size, retrievals of requested data from any storage layer occur in seconds with no need to first restore entire files to disk.
	Scalability Archives can grow to billions of files with no performance degradation due to a unique relational method for storing and indexing all file locator data (metadata about individual files).
	Reduced data ownership costs -StorHouse provides affordable, optimal storage of application data on a blended media hierarchy of RAID, MAID, and tape.
	Built-in compliance support - Configurable parameters and compliant media types ensure retrievals satisfy industry-based retention rules and archive data remains accessible throughout its required lifespan.
	Data sharing across the enterprise - StorHouse promotes secure access to archived data from mainframe, UNIX, and Windows platforms through support for NFS, NTFS, and CIFS file systems.
	Simplified system administration - Storage management is completely automatic, including data migration between storage levels, backup, recovery, and replication.
	Support for Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) - StorHouse architecture and features complement ILM strategies for managing data optimally from creation and use through archive and deletion.

Solution Architecture

The solution consists of a StorHouse data management system with StorHouse/RFS for presenting a standard NFS, NTFS, or CIFS file system interface to applications and StorHouse/SM for providing automatic storage management features. Figure 1 illustrates a sample StorHouse Archiving for File System Applications architecture.

Figure 1: Sample Architecture