• Volume— Experts estimate that petabytes of new information are being generated daily
  
  
• Variety—The majority of new data growth is in unstructured content
  
  
• Velocity—The amount of information and the speed of its growth has long surpassed storage capacity and is spiraling out of control

Benefits

• Reduce IT costs: simplify the archiving infrastructure and reduce overall storage and power needs as well as administrative requirements with the help of integrated appliances and multiple delivery options.
  
  
• Improve performance: Eliminate unnecessary junk content, helping improve system and process efficiency and productivity.
  
  
• Support consistent, defensible compliance and governance: Optimized information management capabilities help you proactively manage compliance related information over its lifespan.
  
  
• Optimize legal discovery: Reduce discovery costs and legal fees and enhance response capabilities by providing authorized legal staff quick access to and analysis of case-relevant information.

IBM can help you extract value and gain new intelligence from the volume, variety and velocity of information being created and help you work smarter in locating, collecting, organizing, analyzing and leveraging trusted information. The key is combining an intelligent approach to information archiving with a more dynamic and flexible infrastructure that is secure and optimized for retention capabilities. In other words, IBM can help you build a smart archive strategy.

The “keep everything” model has failed. Archiving is now a mandate!
Traditional approaches of keeping all information are not practical. They result in point solutions littered with duplicate, obsolete and irrelevant information, they consume excess energy, and they drive up storage costs. At the same time, deleting information based on simple parameters like last usage date is ineffective and risky given the likelihood of accidentally disposing of important information.

The need for information archiving is rapidly increasing, driven by data growth, legal discovery requirements, regulatory compliance and increasingly complex infrastructures. With these growing requirements surrounding the retention of information, organizations are struggling to determine what information they have, what to keep and what to discard. Organizations need a smart archive strategy that:

• Understands what information is housed enterprise-wide to make it easier to know, manage, trust and leverage.
• Ensures that important information is properly retained and protected to support compliance efforts and help reduce risk.
• Reduces costs and complexity while increasing flexibility of your information
  infrastructure.

Manage information over time based on business value and needs
The IBM Smart Archive strategy helps you understand the choices you have in archiving solutions with multiple modular yet integrated solutions that provide choice of management and delivery models based on a common information lifespan and policies. It enables you to decide how you want to manage and access the archived information without sacrificing the economies of scale and cost benefits of your information infrastructure options. Using information- aware devices, you can maintain consistency in retention and disposition policies, de-duplication, migration and long-term preservation of information.

The IBM Smart Archive strategy provides flexible deployment options like on-premise solutions, a preloaded archive appliance or a managed archive service in the cloud to match your business needs today and adapt to your needs in the future. It doesn’t matter whether the information is paper-based, structured data or is unstructured content, images, documents or e-mails. You can optimize the business value of your information by governing it using a common lifespan based on that value.

Optimized and unified ingest
Enable a deeper understanding of what information to archive through discovery- and analytics-based assessment technologies. Eliminate point solution complexity and cost by unifying data and content archiving through common collection (ingest) and classification technologies.

Flexible and secure infrastructure
Cost-optimized retention is possible with the help of a unified, flexible, secure and policy-aware infrastructure. It’s essential to build an infrastructure that allows you to easily set and enforce policies, protect the integrity of business records with enhanced security, and support business continuity and resiliency while optimizing and streamlining archiving and storage management.

Integrated software supporting compliance, records, analytics and eDiscovery
Reduce risk, respond more quickly to legal inquiries, establish trust and leverage information using integrated tools designed to enhance your compliance, analytics, records management and eDiscovery capabilities. Help ensure compliance by managing all records throughout their lifespan, regardless of type, media or storage location, thus helping improve record authenticity, reliability, integrity and usability. You can also collect, hold, manage, assess and intelligently cull collected electronic information to lower eDiscovery response costs and to form early case strategies.

IBM offers specific solutions that are comprehensive, unified, and modular to quickly get started
IBM has combined some of its leading software, systems and services capabilities to create flexible, preintegrated, preconfigured and information-aware solutions for archiving that can start delivering value almost immediately. We can help you speed time to value and simplify
your environment through multiple modular yet integrated solutions, including a choice of management and delivery models based on common information lifespan and policies. We offer specific solutions addressing the following needs:

• IBM InfoSphere™ Content Assessment software
• IBM InfoSphere Content Collector family of offerings, including integration with IBM Optim™ Data Growth Solution software
• IBM InfoSphere Classification Module software
• IBM InfoSphere Discovery with Optim Data Growth Solution software
  

Flexible and secure infrastructure

• IBM enterprise content management (ECM) repositories
• IBM Information Archive solution
• IBM Managed Information Archive Cloud Services
• IBM Global Technology Services – Storage and Archive Services

Integrated compliance, records, analytics and eDiscovery

• IBM InfoSphere Enterprise Records software
• IBM InfoSphere eDiscovery Manager and eDiscovery Analyzer software

For more information
To learn more about IBM Archiving Services, please contact ICON Pareto
at (866) 212-5207.