A Typical Archive Environment Data creation applications Search #1 Search #2 Search #3 Search #4 Email Word Processing Accounting Web Applications
No common search capability
across the different storage systems
A typical enterprise archive environment Digital archiving is not a new phenomenon. Various departments and applications have been backing up their data since computers were first implemented. The problem is that this creates silos of information. The problems are that this type of arrangement does not scale well, and trying to search across silos is almost impossible….at least it is very, very expensive.