Compliance Archiving & Storage Appliance Helps Tyler Schools District Comply with Public Information Act.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- PowerFile(R), an innovator in archive appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets, announced today that in partnership with C2C's Archive One Compliance software, its Permanent Storage Appliance helped Tyler Independent Schools District (TISD TISD Texarkana Independent School District (Texas, USA) TISD Tactical Information Systems Division TISD Tactical Internet System Description TISD Theater Integrated Situation Display TISD Teacher In-Service Day ), the largest school district in northeast Texas Northeast Texas is a region in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas. It is geographically centered around two metropolitan areas strung along Interstate 20: Tyler in the west and Longview/Marshall to the east. , expedite its compliance with the Public Information Act, the law guaranteeing citizens access to public records kept by government agencies. When TISD was advised by the district's legal counsel that an efficient archiving system was needed for compliance with the Public Information Act, the Tyler IT team researched prospective solutions. After researching several vendors, the Tyler IT team identified PowerFile's network-attached Permanent Storage Appliance coupled with C2C's Archive One as the only bundled solution that would meet their requirements. Archive One Compliance extracts a copy of every email sent through the TISD system and writes it to PowerFile's Permanent Storage Appliance, ensuring that all emails will be stored and indexed within the application. A structured permission-based management system enables authorized administrators to quickly search the mail archive in response to requests for message retrieval. The stored data also has an extra layer of protection, since the Permanent Storage Appliance from PowerFile stores the emails on unalterable media, making them tamper-proof. While the lifespan is initially set for permanent retention, the setting can be easily changed so that TISD can delete email data when allowed by law. Providing a fully operational solution across 2500 mailboxes throughout the entire school district, TISD's solution was implemented within two weeks from the initial meeting with C2C (Client to Client) An earlier term for peer-to-peer (P2P), in which one user communicates with another user without going through a server in between. See peer-to-peer. . Commenting on the installation, John Orbaugh, Director of Technology at Tyler Independent Schools District, said, "I was truly impressed at the timescales in which the solution was implemented; the workload on us was minimal." The Permanent Storage Appliance from PowerFile consists of a terabyte cache on the front-end appliance and virtualized DVD-based media libraries in the storage subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. . Each appliance can provide up to 30 TB of storage in a single volume, without the complexity of managing individual DVDs. A newly-created archive file See archive. can be stored in both the cache server A dedicated network server or a service within a server that caches Web pages. Cache servers speed up access to information that has been retrieved previously by the same user or by someone else. See Web cache, origin server, ICP and CARP. and on the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. within the library. This ensures the safety of the data, as DVDs do not suffer from hardware failure in the same way as spinning disks. "We are now compliant with the Public Information Act," said Orbaugh. "The new archiving solution has placed our district in a favorable position Noun 1. favorable position - the quality of being at a competitive advantage favourable position, superiority advantage, vantage - the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" , where we are protected from a potential accusation of not providing all information requested. We can also show that our email records are in a tamper-proof storage system and that we can easily search and retrieve them. In addition, our district has an archiving solution that can grow as our storage needs increase over the years." "Other available archiving solutions simply don't fully address the unique needs of today's archiving requirements," said Jonathan Buckley, PowerFile Vice President of Marketing. "Our Permanent Storage Appliance (PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. ) was built with a focus on archival storage of critical data while addressing necessary compliance issues. The PSA has a total cost of ownership, ease of use and the peace of mind of permanence that magnetic-based storage mediums just can't touch." About PowerFile PowerFile, Inc. is the innovator in archive appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets. The company's award-winning solutions combine the speed and simplicity of online access with better economics and integrity compared to traditional archives, empowering organizations of all sizes to efficiently manage, secure, and preserve valuable digital assets. PowerFile's product offerings combine intelligent storage management software and sophisticated file management with cost-effective, robust hardware to deliver integrated, active, easy-to-use archive solutions. About C2C C2C (www.c2c.com) provides applications to optimize Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. and reduce the legal risks associated with email. C2C's solutions for email archiving, mailbox size management, search and discovery are used by three million users at more than 2,000 organizations worldwide. C2C, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, with U.S. offices in Springfield, Mass. PowerFile and Active Archive Appliance are registered trademarks of PowerFile, Inc. |
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