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Hyperwave Announces Support for New TotalStorage DR550 for Data
Retention
October 20, 2004
Hyperwave AG announced today the integration of its eKnowledge
Suite with the IBM TotalStorage DR550, enabling customers to leverage
the power of Hyperwave's Enterprise Content Management Software
with IBM's reference data solution that can help customers address
regulatory compliance requirements.
Hyperwave's Archive Option directly integrates its eKnowledge Suite
with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention, used to manage
and enforce data retention policies for the IBM TotalStorage DR550.
The IBM TotalStorage DR550 is IBM's next generation data retention
solution, which can deliver a central point of control for both
regulated data and non-regulated data. The solution incorporates
IBM POWER5™ microprocessors designed for increased performance
and speed of data storage. Based on Write Once Read Many (WORM)
disk technology, it offers increased power, ease-of-use and new
security options. Hyperwave complements this solution to help manage
the lifecycle of data assets from creation to retirement for its
customers.
Using Serial ATA (SATA) physical disk storage, the DR550 is ideal
for clients seeking near line storage application needs at an entry
level price point while capitalizing on mainframe-inspired levels
of reliability, security and function. The DR550 also delivers autonomic
features such as call home capabilities, allowing the system to
alert IT staff if there is a problem. This integrated solution will
provide Hyperwave's customers with the foundation to help manage
growing data retention needs associated with compliance regulations
and litigation.
"Our specialized area is the management of unstructured data,
which today accounts for more than 80 percent of the total data
within a company - a number that is increasing annually by more
than 200 percent," says Christoph Michel, CEO of Hyperwave.
"At this rate, even the most sophisticated content management
system will be bursting at the seams after a few years of usage.
The integration with IBM's TotalStorage DR550 allows our customers
to help keep their systems slim and clean with current information,
in addition to helping improve their ability to satisfy emerging
data retention regulations."
"The legal, political and economic climate is fuelling the
growth of retention managed data. As companies comply with existing
regulations, new regulatory mandates emerge. Consequently, it is
an increasing challenge for companies to manage their retention
managed data efficiently," said Alan Stuart, Chief Strategist
and Business Line Executive, IBM Data Retention Solutions. "The
DR550 is designed to help businesses meet this challenge while trying
to leverage their existing software. Hyperwave's integration with
the DR550 can help its customers more cost effectively address the
myriad and complex issues relating to managing data in accordance
with compliance regulations."
In addition, the TotalStorage DR550 can automatically enforce data
retention policies while helping to support on-demand availability
of many key data and applications in the event of hardware, software
or network failures. The DR550 and eKnowledge Suite can provide
companies with an essential component for effectively managing the
value of information that can help reduce the cost of managing and
storing data according to compliance regulations.
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Note: IBM's and Hyperwave's customers are responsible
for ensuring their own compliance with legal requirements. It is
the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent
legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any
relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer's
business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply
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