Features
Search Archive Content – The GridBank™ Platform has a robust search feature that works like an Internet Search Engine. It can search and index your archives, including search of file contents through its integrated ability. The GridBank™ gives a unique capability to search archive content that has never been experienced by users in the unstructured and fixed content archiving marketplace. You may not find Search Archive Content in traditional ILM solutions, Archiving products and content-addressed storage products.
Work like a Library Science – WARM (Write Any Read Many) – By definition, a library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services. This collection is organized for use i.e. Publish, Share, Access, Search and Shred. The GridBank™ platform is Industry’s first archiving platform that truly reflects real world Library science. The GridBank™ platform is the first WARM (Write Any Read Many) solution. Experience a true Library storage system which is transparent and allows active archiving in a WARM fashion.
Share Archives – The GridBank™ platform allows applications and end-users to create and share large archives while effectively utilizing the storage. Through the GridBank™ platform, sharing large documents and images including medical x-rays, media files and pictures has become an easy task. You can define sharing controls by deciding the list of users who should see your shared large archives.
‘Anytime, Anywhere’ Access Archives – The GridBank™ platform allows multiple applications and users to access archives via web and virtual File Area Network. This File Area Network supports CIFS, HTTP and FTP protocols. You can make ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ access possible for your team to access archives.
File Area Network – GridBank™ File Area Network provides conventional views of directories and routine file-level calls, so administrators can provision fixed-content data in a way that is familiar to them. Archived content is retrieved in its original format, and metadata is rendered in XML format.
Transparent In a GridBank™ archive, all storage is object-based, each archive entry is stored as read-only object and encapsulating the original raw data, its metadata and policies. Storage of the object physical data is transparent to the user. An archive object might relocate across many archive nodes as the result of hardware changes or load-balancing. The reference to the object however remains constant.
Intelligent Metabase™ – An archive object in GridBank™ contains its own metadata – who created it, when and what the content is about. Users can later use this metadata to query the archive for specific slices of information. An archive object also contains its own policy – operations that tell the archive object how long to stay in the archive and that what level of protection. Policies enable million of archive objects to manage themselves without outside assistance.
Single Instancing of Files – Let’s follow the history of single hospital x-ray: when the x-ray file enters the archive, several things happen. GridBank™ checks for duplicates. If the file is unique, the archive hashes the file contents to create unique digital signature. This signature is later used to authenticate the file and prevent duplication.
Policies – Metadata is created which includes policy setting and other file-specific information such as author, subject matter and creation date. Policies are assigned such as retention, protection, authentication, and data sharing. The new archive object is replicated across the network as required by its protection policy. During an archive object’s lifetime, it is managed by its own policies. Policies constantly check to make sure that the object is replicated correctly across the network. Its raw content is authentic and its retention period has not expired. The archive file is always available for instant retrieval for example if a doctor wants to retrieve an x-ray, GridBank™ Platform can locate and deliver the file in less than a second.
The next generation of digital archiving is here today offering easy access, unlimited scalability, bullet-proof reliability and protection, data retrieval within seconds and object based archiving that enables archive to practically manage itself. Tarmin is ready to take you beyond your imagination.
