Software helps meet requirements for data retention.
Press Release Summary:
Tivoli® Storage Manager for Data Retention v5.2 strengthens Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition's data management capabilities by preventing data deletion before retention criteria is satisfied. Retention time for objects is based on time interval after occurrence of retention-initiating event. Support for WORM tape and DVD-ROM helps meet regulatory agencies' requirements for data that must be stored on media that cannot be altered.
Original Press Release:
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention V5.2 Implements Data Retention Policies That Help Meet Regulatory Requirements
Overview
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager for Data Retention enhances the already function-rich data retention capability of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition to provide for data retention policies that help meet regulatory requirements.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition, and its complementary products, provide a comprehensive solution focused on the key data protection activities of backup, archive, recovery, space management, and disaster planning. Tivoli Storage Manager enables high availability of business applications by providing outstanding data protection and unique technology to help improve performance and storage resource utilization. Additionally, optional application modules for mail, databases, application servers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and hardware provide higher levels of application and hardware integration with the data protection process.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager's existing policy-based data management capabilities helps meet the needs of many regulated
industries today through an open application programming interface (API). For applications which use the Tivoli Storage Manager API, Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention
strengthens Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition's data management capabilities because it is designed to prevent data deletion before the retention criteria is satisfied. Content management and archive applications can utilize the Tivoli
Storage Manager API to apply business policy management for
ultimate deletion of archived data at the appropriate time.
What's new with Tivoli Storage Manager
Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition is enhanced to help meet
additional requirements defined by the regulatory agencies for retention and disposition of data. These enhancements include new functionality and new device support and are delivered in four key areas:
o Data retention protection
o Event-based retention management
o Expiration/deletion suspension (deletion hold)
o Additional Write Once Read Many (WORM) tape and DVD-ROM library support
Key prerequisites
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention runs on the AIX® , Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) 2000 and 2003, and
OS/400® PASE operating system platforms.
Planned availability dates
o December 19, 2003: Electronic software delivery
o January 16, 2004: Media and documentation
At a glance
Data retention protection capabilities of IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Extended Edition are enhanced with the addition of IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention V5.2 to the Tivoli
Storage Manager family of products. Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition enhancements include:
o Data retention protection: Designed to prevent deletion of
objects until the retention criterion for the object is satisfied.
o Event-based retention policy: Retention time for objects is
based on a time interval after the occurrence of a retention-initiating event.
o Expiration/deletion suspension (deletion hold): Designed to
prevent deletion of objects until the deletion hold is released.
o Additional support for WORM tape and DVD-ROM: to help meet regulatory agencies' requirements for data that must be stored on media that cannot be altered.
