Overview

A Smarter Approach to Archiving

Understand today’s archiving mandates
The need to archive information is on the rise, driven by content and data growth, regulatory compliance, legal discovery and data protection requirements. With these ever-increasing requirements for long-term retention, organizations are looking for an integrated approach to manage and leverage information over its lifetime -- while driving down infrastructure costs and complexity.

Gain an edge with an IBM Smart Archive Strategy
The IBM Smart Archive Strategy is a comprehensive approach that combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities designed to help you extract value and gain new intelligence from information by collecting, organizing, analyzing and leveraging that information. This approach delivers a comprehensive set of solutions, products and services in a unified and integrated strategy that helps you realize the business value of your information while driving down costs and risks and ensuring that critical business content is properly retained and protected.

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The IBM Smart Archive Strategy. It’s an easy decision.
In the past, leading point applications may have been adequate to address near-term, tactical responses to your archiving needs. Over time, however, that approach may prove too limiting as these requirements become increasingly complex. Why keep searching for multiple vendors to duplicate what a single, global end-to-end solution provider can do for your organization? Insist on an exceptional archiving strategy from an industry leader. Rely on IBM for the help you need.

Implement an end-to-end archiving and ediscovery solution in days instead of weeks with Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery.

Leverage our archiving offerings

Optimized and unififed ingest capabilities
Enable a deeper understanding of what information to archive through discovery and analytics based assessment technologies. Reduce point solution complexity and costs by unifying data and content archiving through common collection and classification technologies.

Content Collection and Archiving (US)

Flexible and secure infrastructure
Build a flexible, secure and cost-optimized infrastructure that allows you to easily implement and enforce policies, and protect the integrity of your business records throughout its lifecycle. Speed time to value through multiple modular, yet integrated solutions, including choice of management and delivery models such as traditional on-premise software, preconfigured appliance, cloud-based and hybrid options.

• Content Repositories (US)
• Storage Repositories (US)
• Archive Services (US)

Integrated software supporting compliance, analytics, and ediscovery
Reduce risk, respond more quickly to legal inquiries, establish trust and leverage information using integrated software to support your information lifecycle governance, analytics and eDiscovery requirements.

Compliance management (US)

IBM Smart Archive Strategy overview

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Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery

Implement an end-to-end archiving and ediscovery solution in days instead of weeks with Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery

Understand the needs of email and files system archiving:

Content and data volumes grow nonstop. Simultaneously, requirements for data protection, regulatory compliance, and legal discovery continue to climb. This continual growth of volumes and requirements has lead organizations to seek an integrated approach. Organizations need to manage and leverage information over its lifetime, demonstrate compliance with legal and business mandates, and drive down the costs and complexity of the infrastructure.

The IBM Smart Archive strategy -- a broad strategy unifying the power and value of IBM software, systems and services -- offers specific solutions in a unified, integrated and coherent information aware strategy that maximizes customer value.

As part of the IBM Smart Archive strategy, Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery is a specific solution that helps to simplify and accelerate the implementation of an end-to-end archiving and eDiscovery solution from weeks to days. With Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery, IBM is delivering a specific Smart Archive strategy solution that will ensure the success of information archiving projects.

What makes the Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery bundle unique?

It has everything an organization needs to implement the solution in-house from beginning to end.

This solution consists of pre-configured software, hardware and implementation services from a single vendor. The total solution configuration leverages IBM experience in customer archiving deployments, simplifying implementation and providing quick time to value. Additionally, proven services packages are available to manage ongoing administration and maintenance. This solution is ideal for organizations - with up to 1,400 employees – that have:

• a requirement to capture and retain email and file system content,
• to demonstrate compliance with retention mandates
• experienced soaring storage costs and need to bring those costs under control, and/or have
• requirements to quickly and efficiently respond to ediscovery requests.

Components of Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery

• Content Collector Discovery Analytics Starter Pack (US), which includes Content Collector for Email, Content Collector for File Systems, eDiscovery Manager, eDiscovery Analyzer
• Information Archive (US)
• Content Manager Enterprise Edition (US)
• System x servers already sized and configured to run the software
• Implementation Services on site
• Business Partner Maintenance Packages (optional)

Learn more about Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery.

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  • Read the brochure (PDF, 253KB)

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  Smart Archive in Action

  • Listen to the podcast (MP3, 5.6MB, 6:08)