Organizations today face increasingly strict records retention regulations that require the archiving of e-mails, documents, patient records, design files, audit information, and other data for years, often on WORM (write once, read many) media. In addition, companies are increasingly implementing rigorous best practices to ensure that unregulated but crucial reference data is not changed or deleted and can be quickly and easily retrieved.
In today's world, government and internal records requests frequently combine highly specific search criteria with tight response times, and failure to accurately retrieve the required unaltered records may result in significant financial or reputational damage. However, current WORM technologies based on optical disk and tape do not provide sufficiently rapid access, high reliability, or low total cost of ownership (TCO).
The NetApp SnapLock software product family delivers high performance and high - security data permanence to disk based near-line and primary NetApp storage. An integrated element of the proven NetApp Data ONTAP operating system, SnapLock software helps ensure the permanence, accuracy, integrity, and security of data by enabling business records to be both unalterable and rapidly accessible online for long periods of time.
