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EMC Content Addressed Storage. CAS
The world's first CAS solution.
Meet the unique requirements of storing and managing your "fixed
content"-unchanging digital assets-with EMC Centera. The world's
first content addressed storage (CAS) solution, Centera provides
fast, easy online access with assured content authenticity and petabyte
scalability.
Centera provides a simple, scalable, secure storage solution for
cost-effective retention, protection, and disposition of a wide
range of fixed content-including X-rays, voice archives, electronic
documents, e-mail archives, check images, and CAD/CAM designs. Exceptional
performance, seamless integration, and proven reliability make Centera
the online enterprise archiving standard for virtually any application
and data type.
Optimized for regulatory compliance.
The first magnetic disk-based WORM device, Centera facilitates compliance
with the most stringent regulatory requirements. It is the optimal
solution for fixed content, providing functionality not available
in tape, optical, or traditional disk solutions-at a lower total
cost of ownership.
This integrated hardware and software system supports Microsoft
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP Professional-as
well as Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, UNIX, iSeries,
and z/OS
mainframe platforms. It delivers:
Simple management.
With Centera, your applications no longer have to track the physical
location of stored information. Instead, Centera creates a unique
identifier, based on the attributes of the content, which applications
can use for retrieval.
Assured authenticity.
Centera gives each stored object a unique content address, derived
from the content itself-to assure content integrity and authenticity.
No duplicates of the same content are ever stored. And you can choose
the data protection option that's best for your deployment: content
protection mirroring or, for up to 25 percent more usable capacity,
Centera's new content protection parity.
Universal access.
The
Centera CAS API enables native integration with over 300 applications
from EMC's Centera
Partners. Use the powerful new Centera Universal Access software
appliance to access and archive non-integrated applications via
standard NFS, CIFS, HTTP, and FTP file interfaces. Choose Basic,
Retention, and Enhanced Availability versions to meet your retention
needs. And the new Bus-Tech Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS)-a
seamless tape emulation gateway-lets you connect your z/OS mainframe
applications via ESCON and FICON.
Scalability without reconfiguration.
Centera's architecture is based on redundant arrays of independent
nodes (RAIN)-offering petabyte scalability. Adding capacity is easy:
Centera auto-discovers and configures the new capacity as it's installed.
Self-healing.
Centera continuously monitors to detect and repair soft errors.
It also automatically reconfigures itself and replicates objects
as necessary if hardware failures occur-such as disks or nodes-which
are automatically reported through EMC's remote monitoring system.
Business continuity protection and efficient
replication.
When using content mirroring protection, all information objects
are asynchronously mirrored within a local Centera cluster to support
automatic recovery from component failures. Centera also can be
configured to replicate and maintain duplicate copies of fixed content
at a remote site to guard against site disaster by using Centera's
remote replication software.
Easy installation and non-disruptive upgrades.
Install or upgrade Centera in under an hour, without disrupting
content access. Centera's software operating environment, CentraStar,
also can be upgraded non-disruptively as new versions are released.
Future-proof architecture.
Content stored within Centera is location- and hardware-independent-even
as technologies evolve, records will continue to remain accessible,
independent of the underlying storage medium.
EMC
CENTERA Compliance Edition is a purpose-built hardware and software
solution optimized for retention, protection, and distribution of
fixed content.
EMC
CENTERA Compliance Edition Plus is a purpose-built hardware
and software solution optimized for retention, protection, and distribution
of fixed content.
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