HP RISS

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Nth Generation and HP bring you HP RISS, a software solution that will have your IT environment running safely and efficiently.

Nth Generation has centuries of collective experience identifying, scoping and integrating solutions for any issue relating to mission-critical, enterprise-level IT needs. As such, we’d like to introduce you to HP’s HP RISS solution, which will manage and archive your records seamlessly and efficiently.

HP RISS Details

Overview
The HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS) is a records management and archiving solution that minimizes storage costs and offers unprecedented end user accessibility by transforming data into useful information. IT storage and storage management costs are reduced by a factor of 3 to 5 via highly optimized single instancing capabilities, automated migration of data off expensive primary storage, and end-user initiated information searches and retrievals. The RISS integrates all of the required hardware, software, and services to provide both a cost-effective and a long-term storage appliance for reference information that delivers the lowest TCO in the industry. Through the HP StorageWorks grid architecture, the RISS also provides investment protection by enabling scalability to hundreds of terabytes and billions of objects without loss of performance, intelligently distributing terabytes of content across a grid of storage smart cells.

The Reference Information Storage System searches billions of documents or records in seconds and scales to hundreds of terabytes of storage. The RISS is a key component of the HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) suite of products and services and serves as a platform for all types of reference information, including email, file, and database objects. Application awareness, content-based indexing and powerful search tools ensure unprecedented accessibility to information. RISS assists customers in complying with retention and regulatory requirements and corporate governance initiatives. Data is stored securely with date and time stamping of all objects to mitigate risk and prevent tampering or changing of the retained records. Through industry-standard interfaces and protocols, RISS supports a wide range application partners and is tightly integrated with HP's highly optimized data capture and migration applications.

Features and Benefits

Value: Reduces records management storage costs - RISS uses block level single instancing to reduce storage and storage management and network infrastructure costs – provides a 3x-5x storage capacity reduction for BSI-enabled applications.
Simplicity: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) - Appliance-like simplicity with enterprise class features and management capabilities. Increases capacity of smart cell to 1.4 TB (from 850GB), reducing the RISS system footprint by 50%, reduced power consumption, heat and weight.
Simplicity: Integrated, powerful, and easy to use search tools - RISS indexes both the content and attributes of documents, email, and email attachments. It also supports free text searching from any Web browser.
Value: Investment protection - Leverages customer’s investment in storage and servers. RISS maintains compatibility across smart cell versions, enabling customers to buy what they need now, and take advantage of technology and cost improvements in the future.
Simplicity: Application aware policy driven retention management - RISS supports application aware retention policies that reflect the business value of content.
Value: Automated archiving - Reduces IT support costs by automatic migration of emails, records, and documents to lower-cost storage, based on the value of the data.
Simplicity: Fully integrated hardware, software and services - Maximizes time to value, minimizes cost of ownership. All hardware and software components are fully supported by HP.
Value: Automatically single instances duplicate data objects AND blocks - Block single instancing provides cost effective use of available storage capacity by automatically eliminating duplicate objects, resulting in a 3x to 5x reduction in storage & storage management costs.
Value: Dramatically reduces legal discovery, corporate governance, and surveillance costs - Reduces/eliminates the risk of large fines due to lack of compliance with industry and government regulations. Data can be searched, retrieved, and offloaded to external media in a fraction of time required for competing solutions or manual operations.
Agility: API / SDK and application protocol interfaces - Enables third party applications to access the power and benefits of the RISS system, Seamless integration into applications lowers training and reduces learning curve.
Agility: Replicated, mirrored and disaster protected - Local site mirroring and disaster protection capabilities reduce or eliminate downtime in the event of either a local disk failure or site disaster. Customer has the option of replicating the RISS to a remote site or using the imbedded backup option to back up the RISS to tape.

If you’d like to learn how HP RISS can serve your IT needs, please contact the engineers at Nth Generation today.

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