DAX = Digital Archive eXtendible
As our name already suggests, DAX Archiving Solutions offers products and solutions that satisfy your current archiving demands and provides you with the tools to ensure a successful long-term archiving strategy.
Most companies are aware of the need to back-up their data but not all are conscious of the benefits of having a digital archive. Others do not understand the difference between these completely different concepts.
Back-up is the process where an additional copy of files is made for a short period of time. The main purpose is to cope with loss of the original data.
Archiving is the process where a permanent copy of data is made. The copied data is intended to be used in the future as a reference and/or the primary source of that data. In many cases the original data is being deleted from the primary storage.
Why do you need a long-term archiving strategy?
Continuity
The fact that your company data has to be archived and protected needs little explanation. Did you know that 93% of businesses that suffered catastrophic data loss for 10 days or more went bankrupt within one year? Safeguarding your historical information ensures the continuity of your business.
Cost control
Did you also know that the amount of new storage capacity installed is increasing by almost 80% annually? And that an enterprise spends an average of three dollars managing storage for every one dollar spent on storage hardware? To keep pace with these explosive growth figures, organizations must become more and more efficient with their resources in order to control the associated costs of archiving.
Efficiency & Profitability
By creating archives, you separate your “working data” from your “finished data” which is beneficial for overall network performance as well as for the profitability of your company. All data, including mission-critical data, will be stored safely and preserved for future usage to create new services and revenue streams. At the same time, your backup and disaster recovery requirements are met.
Compliance Legislation
The increase in legislation both in North America and Europe (Sarbanes-Oxley, International Financial Reporting Standards, Basel II, etc…), forces most corporate and government entities, to pay special attention to data archiving. E.g. data must be stored so that it can be accessed when regulators or auditors demand it. And often to a “write once, read many” storage medium, so that its contents can be verified as uncorrupted by users. Longer retention periods, more data to keep, retrieval in a timely fashion, inalterability and audit ability are the key issues addressed in these laws.
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