FileTek

StorHouse for Active Archiving

FileTek is an expert in the active archive market space. Our StorHouse storage virtualization and data management platform is proven, next-generation active archive technology deployed by public and private research institutes, corporations, and government agencies worldwide for life sciences, scientific research, telecommunications, and financial applications, among others. These organizations benefit from a suite of advanced features that take active archive applications to a higher level.

StorHouse Features

• Cross-platform access to both file-based and relational data on the same StorHouse system with integrated connectivity to Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 UDB, and SAP databases. (DB2 data archived to StorHouse can be retrieved from an Oracle platform with no need for format conversion.)
• An industry-standard relational file system over storage pools that include high-density tape libraries for archiving, retrieving, and/or backing up any format of unstructured data in native file format with no need for application modifications
• Scalability to trillions of files and multiple petabytes of managed data with no performance degradation
• All-in-one platform functionality that provides both archive and backup capabilities in a single system
• A native file format backup approach that provides self-service access to information and eliminates the need for legacy data re-staging and restoration
• Virtualized storage that concurrently uses multiple media types such as disk and tape to lower the total cost of data ownership and allows organizations to control data storage by creating rules about how information is stored based on frequency of access and retrieval time requirements
• Automated system, storage, and data management, including storage allocation and control as well as data migration, replication, backup, recovery, and retention
• Active content validation and repair processes to ensure archive integrity and reliability

StorHouse Bottom Line

By storing and protecting all archive data – regardless of its format – on a single system, StorHouse enables users and applications across the enterprise to access a high-availability, next-generation archive repository characterized by ensured data integrity, automatic storage management, hardware independence, sustained performance, and lower total cost of data ownership.