Overview
IBM® FileNet® Image Services Connector to SnapLock supports the SnapLock magnetic WORM storage offering from Network Appliance and IBM. It provides fast, cost-effective and easy-to-administer compliance storage for all your IBM FileNet applications.
- Reduces total cost of ownership by providing fast, affordable online access to your fixed content assets
- Automates key data and storage management functions
- Provides the advanced retention and disposition functionality that compliance applications need to address regulatory requirements
- Can also be used in concert with non-WORM storage (IS MSAR) on the same device, to optimize your NetApp or IBM N series investment
- Provides a viable, online alternative to optical storage
Key features include:
- Versatile Software Upgrade Approach: Runs on existing and future NetApp® NearStore® and FAS network-attached storage devices. Also, all or only a portion of most devices can be used for IBM FileNet SnapLock™ magnetic WORM volumes.
- Online Access: Provides fast, affordable online access to your fixed content assets.
- Alternative to Optical: Provides a viable, online alternative to optical storage with IBM FileNet Image Services.
- Provides advanced retention and disposition functionality, including enabling compliance with SEC Rule 17a-4, 21CFR Part 11, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations and standards that require specific document retention periods and enhanced protection from tampering or unauthorized modification.
- New Image Services “Integral SDS” connector for SnapLock customers using Image Services 4.1.1.1 or later provides even tighter, faster integration to SnapLock volumes for higher performance document storage.
The IBM FileNet Image Services Connector to SnapLock™ provides numerous technology and business benefits:
- It can speed access to the information your staff needs regardless of where they are, while ensuring that the content is protected and tamper-proof.
- When you use SnapLock with IBM FileNet Image Services or any supporting application, you do not have to purchase a storage device that is designed only for data protection use.
- It has simple setup and data integrity protection capabilities, which can help you lower your total cost of ownership.
- It can be used together with optical storage to leverage your NetApp or IBM N series investment and provide a removable static copy of your Image Services documents at the same time.
