Thursday, 5 October 2006

Symantec to Secure Stored Data at the Enterprise Level

Symantec has announced the ability to leverage its Dynamic Storage Tiering technology to enable cost-effective, policy-based automated storage management of persistent data profiles — the fastest growing segment of stored data at the enterprise level.

Symantec has joined the new Persistent Data Storage Architecture (PDSA) alliance, led by MAID storage solutions provider COPAN Systems, to address how enterprise customers manage information.

With the Dynamic Storage Tiering capabilities of Veritas Storage Foundation, information is said to be moved to less expensive storage based on the changing value of the information to the business. Organisations can define policies that move files based on a variety of criteria such as date created, time and frequency of access, owner, size, or name. The policies move files dynamically to higher or lower tiers of storage based on the defined criteria eliminating administrative overhead. Since the Veritas File System can span multiple volumes and tiers of storage hardware, the file system directory structures are unchanged. Consequently, file movement is completely transparent to the users, applications, databases, backup recovery policies and access to data is never interrupted.

In addition to the management of online information with Veritas Storage Foundation, COPAN Systems is integrated with Symantec’s Veritas NetBackup for backup and recovery of information.