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Data Archiving and Retention Systems
Data Archiving and Retention Systems
DR550
Product
IBM System Storage DR550
Machine/model
2233 DR1
Platform support
All IBM systems platforms and other vendor platforms
Host connectivity
2 port Gigabit Copper or Fibre Ethernet (upgrades available)
Software
IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM)
Archiving application interface
SSAM application programming interface (API) v5.5.0 or DR550 File System Gateway
Controller
Single System p5® POWER5+™
Operating system
IBM AIX, Version 5.3
Management interface
IBM Director 5.20.2
Systems supported
External Tape and Optical
Backup sw
Included in SSAM
Backup hw
External tape
Copy services
N/A
Encryption
Disk or tape, 128-bit AES or 56-bit DES encryption technology
RAID support
5 and 6
Capacity (min, max)
.88 TB, 48.8 TB
Drive support
1 TB SATA
DR550 Highlights
An award-winning and industry-proven information archiving and retention offering with built-in lifecycle management capabilities to help
organizations meet the growing challenges of efficiently managing, protecting and retaining data
Repository for all kinds of content (e-mail, database, documents, images, files, etc.)
Provide nonerasable, nonrewritable archival storage; prevents deletion or alteration of information stored on the system
Support multiple storage tiers for long-term archiving (disk and tape) helping lower TCO
Provide the facilities to migrate archive data from aging disk or tape subsystems to new ones
Offer automatic provisioning, migration, expiration and archiving capabilities
Supports 48.8 TB raw physical capacity and petabytes of storage with tape attached
Offer chronological and event-based data retention
Provide security and protection through data encryption and data shredding options
Support and integrate with broad set of IBM and non-IBM content management applications
Protect customer data against disasters through synchronous or asynchronous replication
Award-winning: Data Protection Summit—Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)—Best of Show, 2007 and AIIM (The Enterprise Content
Management Association)—Best in Show, 2005, 2006