Why unified archiving?

The requirements for archiving have risen due to the introduction of compliance guidelines and statutory requirements. Thus, the need for revision-proof documentation detailing work processes and results grows. E-discovery, the company wide search and provision of information, requires powerful search functions within a robust and flexible archive solution.

Future-proof archiving concepts learn from the following trends:

• Archiving will be part of every business process.
• A significantly greater volume of data and new types of information are archived and must be found.
• Search is not restricted to individual types of information as today but will include all information, regardless of type, format and original application.
• 20 years ago, data management moved away from single applications towards central DBMS platforms. Similarly, archiving and retention will move from the application to a central infrastructure.
• The access to archived data must transparently linked to existing applications.
• New archiving concepts assist enterprises to archive data across applications and storage technologies.