StorHouse

FileTek's StorHouse® is comprehensive information management software specifically designed to administer massive amounts of structured and unstructured fixed content, historical data, and their associated backups. StorHouse technology combines industry-leading, scalable storage devices and Open System processors with specialized storage management, file system interface, and relational database management system software components.

Who Uses StorHouse?

FileTek customers currently use StorHouse to manage massive amounts of fixed content data typically generated by active archive and data warehouse applications. Whether your data consists of telephone call detail records, digital archives, customer statements, scientific experiments, point-of-sale records, passenger tracking information, stock trades, e-mail, seismic recordings, health care information, office documents, or other types of detail data, StorHouse can manage it cost-effectively.

StorHouse Interfaces

StorHouse supports a complete set of interfaces that enable it to operate as a single system for storing and accessing all enterprise data. The StorHouse interface set consists of:

  • An NFS, NTFS, and CIFS file system interface


  • A relational interface with support for SQL, ODBC, FTP, ESQL, and DB2 Wrapper


  • An SAP-integrated interface to SAP Business Warehouse for offloading accessible aged data to StorHouse


  • An application program interface (API) that provides a record access method.


Storage Virtualization

StorHouse uniquely virtualizes and abstracts a managed hierarchy of storage devices that can include always-spinning SCSI and SATA RAID, MAID, optical, and tape in automated libraries to provide a single view of storage to client applications. Because of this virtualization, users never need to be concerned about where data resides.

Virtualization enables:

  • Rapid, direct access to data at the row- and record-level from all storage levels (including tape)
  • Easy reconfiguration of the storage technology mix to sustain the best balance between performance and cost
  • Transparent migration of data to new technologies, which can be easily introduced into the hierarchy to replace obsolete storage components.

StorHouse Architecture

The following figure illustrates the StorHouse hardware and software architecture.

StorHouse Architecture

Software Components

The StorHouse software components are:

FileTek also offers the StorHouse AMMO-II™ family of document management and viewing products — AMMO-II, LAN-AMMO, and Web-AMMO. These products electronically store and retrieve massive amounts of information currently printed on paper or written to microfiche or microfilm. StorHouse AMMO-II, combined with StorHouse/SM, StorHouse/RM, and StorHouse/Control Center, provides a comprehensive, integrated solution for managing and viewing customer and corporate data.

StorHouse MAID

In partnership with COPAN Systems, FileTek supports the Revolution 200T massive arrays of idle disks (MAID) technology as a principal StorHouse storage level. MAID is a SATA-based storage subsystem where disks spin and consume power only when required for data access. (Only 25% of MAID disks can be spinning and directly accessible at one time.)

StorHouse has supported automated optical and tape storage for many years, so managing a MAID storage tier through a virtual tape interface is a natural fit. In fact, StorHouse features improve MAID operation by optimizing spin-cycle management and enhancing MAID reliability, performance, application support, and scalability. Click StorHouse with MAID for more information, including instructions for downloading the white paper, "StorHouse with MAID: The Optimal Cost-Performance Storage Architecture."

Transparent access to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, and IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB)

StorHouse transparency features can extend Oracle, SQL Server 7.0 and IBM DB2 UDB databases. This means that Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM users can connect to and access multi-terabytes of historical data—considered too costly or cumbersome to maintain in these systems—on StorHouse without modifying their native applications.

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