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 IT organizations are looking for a better way to protect and retain
long-term data.
Many now recognize that traditional backup and replication does not provide
an
effective data protection strategy. Storing long-term data on spinning
disk and
backing it up repeatedly simply adds needless complexity, costs and risk.
Plasmon has eliminated the complexity and risk associated with retaining long term data while enhancing the data protection service levels of online backup, lowering operational costs, and accelerating data recall. Plasmon's archive solutions have been specifically architected to adhere to the accepted industry 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice*. And you'll find that with Plasmon, creating a secure archive environment that meets all long-term data retention requirements is just as easy as 3-2-1… Plasmon's 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice implementation calls for a minimum of 3 copies of archived data, stored on 2 different types of media, 1 of which is removable, permanent and energy efficient. To access the Plasmon archive, users and applications interact with the system as a standard NAS file system. Automated rules ingest data written through the NAS directly into the archive's virtualized environment. Data can be single-instanced, compressed and encrypted in this process to guarantee storage efficiency and data security. The next steps are precisely 3-2-1:
The 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practices provide the security, resilience, permanence and cost-effectiveness essential for a professional archive environment, and only Plasmon delivers the full-range of 3-2-1 capabilities you need to deploy a simple and effective archive solution. * Gartner Group - Carolyn DiCenzo, Digital Archives: Long-Term Planning Assumptions |
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Understanding
3-2-1
Archiving
Defined 
The archive must
make at least 3 copies of the data. These should include a
"rapid access" copy accessible online to meet the retrieval
performance required
by business critical applications, a "copy of record" archived
to guarantee the
absolute security and authenticity of the data over its life-span, and
a disaster
recovery copy that can be pre-staged for remote failover when disaster
strikes. 
The archive must
store the data copies on at least 2 different types of media.
The most appropriate options are magnetic disk and secure ultra density
optical
disk (UDO), an IS0 standard. This allows you to match the business needs
of the
3 copies to the strength of the media while creating a resilient storage
infrastructure that protects data from a single mode of failure. 
At least 1 of the
data copies must be stored off-site on removable media. True WORM UDO
disk media addresses this requirement, providing absolute data
authenticity and unmatched permanence with a media life of greater than
100
years. UDO also consumes zero power when inactive, making it the greenest
possible archive solution. UDO is an obvious choice for the copy of record
and
provides the most cost-effective option for the disaster recovery copy. 