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Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution

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Your Challenges

Solve your data-mangement challenges.

Exponential data growth
E-discovery, regulatory mandates, and audit requests
Increasing energy costs and storage complexity
Flat or declining budgets

Our Solution: Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution

The Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution leverages the power of Open Storage to provide a flexible, cost-effective archive that:

Offers long-term retention as well as fast access and retrieval
Reduces the amount of production and backup storage required
Reduces storage costs by up to 90%
Simplifies deployment, administration, and management
Future-proofs your archives against technology changes and upgrades
Ensures data integrity

Sun Fire X4140 and X4240 Servers: Powered by industry-leading AMD Opteron processors, these energy-efficient servers provide the fastest, most dense and scalable systems in their class, streamlining your business and saving on power, space, and cooling costs.

Sun Storage 7110 and 7210 Unified Storage Systems: See how the industry's first Open Storage appliances with Hybrid Storage Pools can simplify the way you manage your storage, providing you with greater flexibility, ease of use, energy efficiency, and lower costs.

Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 Software: Using a market-proven architecture, Enterprise Vault software provides an open, intelligent, archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of unstructured information across your company.

Key Benefits

Reduce storage costs and complexity

With the Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution, you can reduce production and backup storage by 80%, and cut your storage costs by more than 90%
Sun Open Storage combines industry-standard hardware and open source software to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and to deliver breakthrough economics
Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 efficiently archives information by storing just one copy of a file or message, significantly reducing your cost of ownership

Simplify deployment, administration, and management

With pretested, easy-to-deploy configurations and Quick Start tools, Sun and Symantec get your solution up and running quickly
Integrates seamlessly with your existing environment and future-proofs your archives, enabling you to add new technologies as required
Easy-to-use graphical user interface and policy-based archiving simplify administration and management
Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 provides one retrieval point for all tiers of data, simplifying day-to-day administration and disaster recovery

Ease compliance and E-discovery

Symantec Enterprise Vault 8's intelligent archiving creates a repeatable method for classifying and storing unstructured data, enabling you to meet compliance requirements and to enforce records management policies
Intelligent archiving also helps you store and retrieve ever-growing data volumes
Eases E-discovery by consolidating email and other electronic information into a single repository, simplifying management and enabling fast access and retrieval

Ensure data integrity

The Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution comes with Solaris ZFS, the groundbreaking file system that provides virtually unlimited capacity, near-zero administration, and provable, self-healing data integrity
Solaris ZFS maximizes the availability of your archives by automatically diagnosing, isolating, and recovering from faults
Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 provides advanced reporting, monitoring, and diagnostics to enhance performance and availability

Service and Support

Sun Storage services professionals help you meet your storage challenges by delivering solutions that optimize and manage storage performance over the life of your data.