In today's litigious environment corporate and federal regulations concerning preservation and secure access to data are becoming more stringent. As a result organizations are struggling to ensure control process enforcement and rapid access to data for up to 25 years. Taking this timeframe into mind, many data lifecycle management processes suggest migrating data from more expensive storage to more cost effective solutions but this makes it very difficult to guarantee compliance and integrity and the cheaper solutions are often inaccessible. The solution is a single storage system used from data creation to archiving that can preserve your data, with guaranteed integrity and built in process control mechanisms.
Granular Control and Continuous Data Protection
Caringo object storage software powered by CAStor is the ideal solution for even the most stringent corporate or government environments. Our object storage approach means that data is stored as a whole with granular control driven by the associated metadata including definable lifecycle policies, access policies, and content integrity seals ensuring the information chain of custody. All of these features are standard in a fully automated, easy to manage solution that will reduce your risk and save you time and money in litigation support.
- Content integrity seal — CAStor establishes content authenticity for evidentiary purposes by creating and storing content integrity seals. Seals are requested and stored by the application at time of write on a per object basis, computed on the content only, not the metadata.
- Continuous integrity checks — CAStor's Health Processor continuously monitors data integrity and cardinality (number of replicas) and will automatically heal any degradation or non-conformity. Metadata life point rules are also checked and enforced.
- Transmission integrity — Verifies intact object transmission from source to destination. MD5 hash of the file can be included in the object header to ensure that there is no corruption of the file data during transmission.
- Object-level retention — Retain content for a specified period of time to meet regulatory or governance policies. Set retention time on a per object basis and the system will ensure it remains available and unchanged until it expires at which time all replicas are securely destroyed.
- WORM storage — CAStor addresses regulatory mandates that content be stored on non- erasable, non-rewriteable media. True to Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) storage media, once an object is written it cannot be changed or deleted.
Federal documents are stored in highly available storage accessible from multiple Sao Paulo locations.
Servix, a Caringo partner in Sao Paulo, Brazil, worked with Tribunal Regional Federal (TRF) to create a compliant storage ecosystem for their federal documents. Servix identified Caringo's CAStor object storage software as the right foundation for TRF's storage architecture. The Alfresco + Caringo integration, developed by Xenit, made it easy to integrate their existing Alfresco workflow to a high performance Caringo backend storage solution.
The Challenge
- Access highly available storage from multiple sites
- Integrate Alfresco's open source ECM with a scalable storage solution
- Migrate paper files to digital records for online object storage repository
- Scale storage to over a petabytes in next 5 years on a tight budget
- Enhance collaboration, workflow and productivity with information assets
- Adhere to strict regulatory compliance guidelines for online content
The Solution
- Successfully deployed multiple storage clusters in a hub-and-spoke roll up pattern
- Integrated Alfresco application to central store hundreds of millions of documents
- Simple implementation of replication to all legal records in each office cluster to central site and DR site
- Providing 24x7 bilingual support of Portuguese and English to object storage system
- Comprehensive protection of content to international retention and deletion standards
The Results
- Continuous availability running 7x24 with no downtime
- Geographic distribution solution providing maximum data protection
- Disaster preparedness with replicated data between multiple sites
- Transparent failover and failback with an intelligent active/active storage cluster
- Comprehensive protection of content to international retention and deletion standards
The Configuration
- An Alfresco enterprise content management application suite deployed at 3 remote judicial court offices with all legal content rolled up to a Central Court location and replicated to a disaster recovery (DR) site for a comprehensive business continuity solution.
Truliant Federal Credit Union Ensures Data Can Outlive Hardware with Continued Access
Truliant Federal Credit Union has 22 member financial centers in four states with 190,000 members and $1.5 billion in assets. When competing with some of the largest banks in the world, service is key, which is why they were an early adopter of object storage. "We had been using object storage since 2005," said Ricky Boone IT Security Administrator. "We need to store millions upon millions of files in an accessible way. Traditional NAS buckled under the load". Rather than settling for an inferior member experience, Truliant turned to object storage as a way to efficiently store and manage their contact center audio, check images, receipts, member statements, email archives and video. Aging equipment, increases in maintenance fees, and an eventual need to upgrade to a new product line, led them to search for a better solution.
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The Challenge
- Provide cost effective and responsive long-term storage for rich media files of varying sizes
- Files: call center audio, check images, email, check receipts and video ranging from 1KB – 100+ MBs
The Solution
- Caringo CAStor on dedicated hardware and Content File Server (CFS) and Cluster Services Node (CSN) in a VM Environment
- Call recording and screen capture application writing to CFS and enterprise email archival application writing directly to CAStor
- 32 TB over 2 sites (16 TB primary, 16 TB DR)
The Results
- Reduced data center footprint by over 50%
- Can use any x86 server hardware
- No-downtime expansion and servicing
The Configuration
- Call recording and screen capture application writing to CFS in a VM Environment and enterprise email archival application writing directly to CAStor running on dedicated hardware
