Plasmon protects archived data

Plasmon's NetArchive platform uses NetApp RAID hardware and WORM appliance to archive data

Archiving solution provider Plasmon has announced NetArchive, an enterprise-class archiving system, which blends online and long-term storage architectures with data management software to give enhanced data integrity, longevity and disaster recovery, according to the vendor.

The system allows customers to let employees move data between NetApp's RAID hardware and the archive appliance using automated policy management software to link data transfer between the two sets of hardware. This reduces the cost and complexity of managing archives, Plasmon said.

Plasmon chief executive Steven Murphy said that NetArchive was "a key step toward the realisation of Plasmon’s strategy to simplify the archive process through virtualisation, which delivers an intelligence-based system behind a single storage node".

Murphy added, "NetArchive leverages appropriate storage technologies to balance capacity, performance and storage costs against the legal and business value of data and improves operational efficiencies while meeting customer requirements for a robust disaster recovery strategy."

NetArchive creates a tiered storage system, which migrates infrequently accessed data off NetApp's RAID hardware onto Plasmon's write-once, ready-many (WORM) Archive Appliance.