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Home Services Consult And Change Secure Information Archiving Strategy

Archiving Strategy

The increased importance and requirements to adhere to regulations and be compliant means that archiving has never been as imperative. Computacenter offers a range of archiving solutions that are cost-effective and tailored to suit individual needs.

A service component of our Secure Information solution.

What we do

Computacenter provides a range of archiving solutions to meet differing business needs – from complying with regulatory demands, or enable policy-based retention.

Our solution follows a structured approach consisting of Analysis; Design and Planning; Environment Build and Testing; and Migration. The first stage involves an analysis of the current environment, and future requirements. At this point we can provide vendor-independent advice and guidance on technologies and solutions.

A design is developed using the most appropriate technologies for your organisation's requirements. This considers aspects such as data volumes and retention periods, and storage mediums to meet your business drivers – for example, only data archived with certain technologies is admissible in court. This solution can be tested and demonstrated within our comprehensive Solutions Centre to prove functionality and performance.

Computacenter's consultants and engineers will then implement the agreed solution within your environment, before the live environment is finally migrated to the new solution.

How it helps

Working with Computacenter, archiving can provide a number of benefits to your business:

Compliance
Enabling an organisation to efficiently retain information to meet ever increasing legislation and regulatory requirements, as well as internal rules.

Increase IT efficiency
Archiving can improve IT efficiency by improving application and server performance by shortening back-up timescales and increasing the speed of recovery. Additionally, by keeping data accessible online, we enable improved information access and the ability for its reuse.

Reduce Cost
Archiving can improve storage utilisation by migrating infrequently accessed data from primary systems to more cost-effective archive systems. Our approach automates the archiving process, saving time and money.

Why we are different

Computacenter offers complete end-to-end solutions, building the infrastructure to support the future needs of your business.

Vendor Independence
As a vendor-independent organisation, Computacenter has skills reaching across all major server, storage and application vendors to enable the delivery of an unrivalled level of infrastructure and software integration. This allows Computacenter to offer best of breed solutions from available technology, without reliance on a single vendor.

Skills and Capabilities
Computacenter's consultancy capabilities cover all leading software and infrastructure vendors in the field of data, and we retain consultants with the highest level of accreditations and practical experience in their respective fields.

Our partner status with vendors allows us to be involved in early adopter and consultancy programmes, which provides us with leading-edge knowledge and practice, whilst allowing us to retain a vendor-agnostic approach to storage and data management.

Where we have done it

North Yorkshire County Council
North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) wanted to improve IT efficiency, but also needed to ensure its systems were compliant with the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts. With industry experts estimating that 75 per cent of a typical organisation's intellectual property is contained in email messages, NYCC required a robust and scalable retention system.

As Gavin Stone, a Lead Consultant at Computacenter explains: "Users' historic emails were being stored on individual desktops, which not only made retrieval very complex but also impacted the council's backup processes and storage utilisation." To solve these problems, NYCC's IT team worked with Computacenter to deploy a centralised email archiving and storage solution. This infrastructure enables the council to store up to 13 terabytes of data and will help to free up costly primary storage resources.

Danny Rubie, Head of ICT for NYCC concludes, "By reducing the volume of messages stored locally, we have also made our email system more agile and reduced the time and money spent on backup processes."