Archivas Granted Patent for Key Digital Archiving Technology.Newly Patented Technology is Fundamental to Policy-Based Control of Archived Content Throughout Its Lifecycle WALTHAM Waltham (wôl`thăm, –thəm), city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown 1738, inc. as a city 1884. , Mass. -- Archivas[R], Inc., the leading provider of digital archiving solutions, today announced it has been granted a new patent for digital archiving technology by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Patent & Trademark Office. Archivas has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,155,466 for a system that enables an archive to independently manage both scheduled and event-triggered policies. The technology, "policy-based management See policy management. of a redundant array of independent nodes," is employed in Archivas Cluster[TM] (ArC[TM]) software, which provides object-based storage for the long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. preservation and protection of digital assets. An archive object consists of raw archived data, such as a file or email message, plus permanently associated metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. and policy settings, which govern an object's behavior in the archive from its creation through disposition. "The benefits that our customers derive from this patented technology flow from fundamental decisions we made when architecting the Archivas Cluster software," said Andres Rodriguez, chief technology officer and founder of Archivas. "Our extensible policy manager framework is database-driven, which allows us to quickly get answers to complex or previously unanticipated questions and use this information to drive policy actions and enforcement. Building ArC on this symmetric No difference in opposing modes. It typically refers to speed. For example, in symmetric operations, it takes the same time to compress and encrypt data as it does to decompress and decrypt it. Contrast with asymmetric. (mathematics) symmetric - 1. , distributed architecture allows us to continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. push the envelope on scalability, performance, and functionality." About Archivas Based in Waltham, MA, Archivas, Inc. software lets customers store, protect, and manage fixed-content data, such as document, email, database, image, and audio files, in the most open and operationally efficient online environment available on the market today in order to meet corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. , legal discovery, and compliance regulations. Archivas Cluster (ArC) simultaneously addresses the needs for immediate access to archive data and a lower total cost of ownership. For further information on Archivas, a proud sponsor of the CAS Community (www.cascommunity.org), please visit www.archivas.com, email info@archivas.com, or telephone 781-890-8353. [c] 2007 Archivas, Inc. Archivas is a registered trademark and Archivas Cluster and ArC are trademarks of Archivas, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, and service marks appearing in this announcement are the property of their respective owners. |
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