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	Representing significant advancement over existing CAS architectures, CAStor is the first software-only product introduced to the market and offers the most complete set of features. If you are challenged with managing an ever-growing storage environment for content and need to ensure compliance, CAStor is ideally suited for you. Architecture Features & Benefits Compliance & ILM Features & Benefits Management Features & Benefits
	Architecture Features & Benefits    top
	Software-only CAS No hardware lock-in; software never loaded on disk leaving all storage available for data Hardware Agnostic (Any x86 Architecture) Standard, commodity server hardware of choice; take full advantage of the price performance curve of commodity servers Open-Standard Interfaces HTTP, CIFS/NFS (CAStor FSG), SNMP, NTP Single, Flat 128-bit Address Space Virtually unlimited address space for massive scaling and long-term archiving Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) Unique identifier for the life of an object providing location independence and abstracting application from where it’s stored. Zero File System (ØFS) No file system overhead, minimal management/administration; no limits on quantity of files or file sizes. Symmetric Architecture All nodes offer all functions. No bottlenecks. No access only nodes. Near-continuous operation and flexible re-configuration on-the-fly. Self-Aware Cluster Self-managing, self-configuring and self-healing maximizes up-time and minimizes administration Scale Performance Cluster performance improves with addition of new server nodes or nodes with greater processing power Local Area Replication Replicate content locally to a sub-cluster with different physical or geographical characteristics Wide Area Replication CAStor RP (Replication Portal) enables disaster recovery and failover to secondary site. Supports 1:1, 1:Many and Many:1 configurations
	ILM/Compliance Features & Benefits    top
	Data Integrity Assurance that data remains unchanged with cryptographic hash; this is separate from the UUID Content Integrity Seal Establishes authenticity of a content object and is returned to the application that requests it Transparently Upgradable Hash (Patent Pending) Upgrade hash algorithm used to stronger algorithm when the original risks being compromised, e.g. MD5. No impact on applications or content store. Object-level Retention Set retention time on a per object basis to ensure it remains available and unchanged until expiration WORM-like Storage Once an object is written to CAStor it cannot be changed. This addresses regulatory mandates such as SEC17a4 Custom Metadata Applications and/or users can define metadata attributes to uniquely describe content objects LifePoint Support Set metadata attributes for treatment of an object at specific times in its lifecycle Anchor Streams UUID for a content object remains “anchored,” but content can change allowing for disk-based backup and database backups
	Management Features & Benefits    top
	Browser-based Management Console Manage, monitor and control the entire cluster from any node through a simple browser interface SNMP Support Monitor and manage clusters with common systems management platforms, e.g. CA Unicenter or HP OpenView Syslog Server Support Sends alerts to a standard Syslog server for reporting/diagnosing issues and logging for audit trails NTP Support Supports external network clock synchronization to ensure accurate time stamps to adhere to retention times Network Boot Boot CAStor server nodes from the network to minimize administrative activity. CAStor Product Sheet .pdf
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