Storage-aware content management platform
New EMC Documentum Content Storage Services enables automated,policy-based Information Lifecycle Management
EMC Corporation, leader in information storage and management, announced the new EMC Documentum Content Storage Services, a major advancement to help customers derive higher levels of business value from their Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategies.
The technology enables organisations to define and execute storage policies that automate the placement and movement of content across a tiered heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
Using this technology, new content can be automatically placed on the optimal storage platform and migrated when the value of that content and related business needs change.
EMC is delivering this fully integrated offering, available immediately, within seven months of acquiring Documentum.
The company says says that Content Storage Services is the first and only storage-aware enterprise content management solution designed specifically to enable organisations to adopt an information lifecycle management strategy, thereby maximising the value of content, at the lowest total cost of ownership, at every point in the information lifecycle.
The new offering supports all EMC storage platforms, as well as arrays from other vendors, including Hitachi, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Network Appliance.
Using Documentum Content Storage Services, information can be allocated to and migrated across storage devices based on business policies that use standard and user-defined attributes, including content type, access control level, lifecycle state, sharing permissions, industry regulations or archiving requirements, as well as date last accessed, size, related transactions or related documents. Together, storage administrators and business users work to define policies that specify the initial storage device/tier and rules for migrating information across storage tiers. Policies can be executed automatically as a result of a system event (such as the completion of a workflow activity), ad-hoc and in batch to provide the greatest level of flexibility for an organisation. Documentum Content Storage Services also includes migration logs and audit trail capabilities so that content movement among storage tiers can be monitored and internal accounting charge backs easily reported.
Documentum Content Storage Services differs from hierarchical storage management (HSM) solutions that store information based on standard file or disk-level information by providing allocation and migration of information based on all of the rich metadata and content services provided by the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform.
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