Storage areas

A storage area is a place where Content Platform Engine stores content.

In the case of federated content systems, content is created by external source repositories and the metadata for the content is federated to Content Cortex. The content can then be accessed and managed by Content Cortex applications.

Federated repositories are owned and under the direct control of the federated system's native services. You can use Content Cortex to gain access to the content and metadata across several external repositories that use a common interface. When configured with a federated content management system, Content Cortex supports single point of access, federated security, federated records management and federated business management processes.

When creating a storage area, you can define the method used to delete content from the storage area. There are 3 delete methods defined:

Standard (Clear): Specifies that content is deleted by using the normal delete operation for the given storage device.
Destructive (Destroy): Provides secured delete at a moderate performance cost.
Purge: Provides highly secured delete at a higher performance cost than destructive delete.

For fixed content devices and advanced storage device, deletion implementations depend on the device. If a fixed content device or advanced storage device does not support one of the secure delete methods (that is, destructive or purge), then the device's standard delete method is used. The defined deletion method also applies to deleting the content from the staging area of a fixed content device.

Destructive and purge deletion method only apply to file system storage area, advanced file system storage area, Centera Fixed Content Storage Area, and Hitachi Fixed Content Storage Area.