The IBM System Storage DR550 is designed to help businesses meet these growing challenges of managing and protecting retention managed data and other critical information assets with operational efficiency. Well suited for archiving a broad range of electronic based records, including e-mail, digital images, database applications, instant messages, account records, contracts or insurance claim documents, and other types of storage records, DR550 is designed to provide advanced storage management technology to enable the management and enforcement of data retention policies. The DR550 policy-based, archive data retention capabilities are designed to support nonerasable, nonrewritable data storage, and help address the needs of regulated industries and other businesses with long-term data retention and protection requirements.

Features

• Designed as a preconfigured, integrated solution to help store, retrieve, manage, share and secure regulated and nonregulated data 
• Designed to offer automatic provisioning, migration, expiration and archiving capabilities
• Supports enterprise scalability of up to 89.6TB physical disk capacity and supports petabytes of storage with attached tape
• Optional data encryption for disk and tape
• Optional synchronous data replication between local and remote sites