InfoSphere Optim Archive

Archiving capabilities to achieve business results

IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Archive is a scalable solution that can help your organization manage and support database archiving strategies. Control growing data volumes and associated storage costs while improving application performance and minimizing risks associated with data retention and compliance.

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Improve data lifecycle management

Management tools help you consolidate or retire legacy and redundant applications. Archiving expedites application upgrades by reducing the amount of data to be migrated.

Data retention compliance programs

Optim Archive lets you apply business policies that govern data retention, access and disposal. With a retention policy, you can confidently delete archived data when retention needs expire.

Control and manage data growth

By applying advanced archiving capabilities for structured data, InfoSphere Optim Archive provides better data control and helps reduce hardware storage and maintenance costs.

Reduce risk and control costs

To further reduce costs, you can store historical or reference data offline to tape or other long-term storage devices. This enables you to protect archived business objects for regulatory compliance.

Application-independent access methods

Independent access helps eliminate the need to maintain originating applications or versions. It also lets users view, query and report on data in archives using industry-standard methods and reporting tools.

Consumption-based reporting

Optim archive produces reports from archive, delete, and restore processes that show detailed information about database connections, access, data throughput, index usage and other relevant statistics.

Establish distinct service levels

Levels for each class or temperature of data so you can consistently achieve application and data warehouse performance targets. Set appropriate service levels for current (hot) data, reporting (warm) data and historical (cold) data.