With today’s regulatory and litigation readiness issues, it has never been more important to have a fail-safe data protection strategy. However,
high data growth rates and unchecked primary storage expansion has
resulted in data volumes that are often beyond the scope of simple backup products. The magnitude of data on most primary computing storage environments makes it all but impossible to manage the data effectively, and organizations are struggling to find solutions.

Phoenix provides powerful data protection that is fully integrated with other application tools that address file system grooming, data classification, and long term archiving. Deployed as point products, each addresses critical areas of data management with beneficial answers. Combined as an integrated suite, the technology tames data management issues through information lifecycle management.

To provide data protection, Phoenix targets data in primary storage that is new or has been modified and processes it into the Phoenix Information Repository, an active, tiered storage environment. Data service policies in the Information Repository monitor data and ensure that it is preserved on storage resources that meet the data’s service level requirements and recovery time objectives.

Long term archiving is accommodated through policies that consolidate like data onto purposed storage, then ensure the data is preserved as long as is required. Media containing archived data may be removed from the system and stored off-line and still be fully search enabled. If archived data needs to be migrated to new storage technology, policies can easily be created to accomplish the task automatically.

Data security is accomplished through a digital fingerprint that is assigned as data is ingested into the Information Repository. The fingerprint is verified every time a file is accessed and makes it impossible to manipulate or modify a stored file without the Phoenix system capturing the event and logging the details. Security is further ensured by the preservation and use of the permission attributes originally assigned to a file. Users will be able to see or access only data for which they have proper permissions.

For additional information, click here to download the Phoenix Data Protection, Archiving, and Security Data Sheet. (PDF)