Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

CUC Solutions provides technologically advanced, dependable solutions to manage your rapidly growing collection of audio files, video communications, text documents, and emails. Our data lifecycle management plans are designed to meet your company's core goals in information retrieval, cost, and storage:

• Decreased storage hardware costs
• Enhanced data protection and security
• Reduced IT work hours
• Simple recovery in case of disaster
• Compliance with HIPAA, SEC, or Sarbanes-Oxley

The secret to CUC Solutions' cost-saving data lifecycle management technology is a unique tiered storage system, which we integrate seamlessly with your company's current software and legacy IT. Multiple levels of storage allow you to save older or less important data at deeper levels. Data you often use is kept at higher, more accessible tiers, making your desktops, laptops, servers, and workstations run more efficiently.

In addition, CUC's information lifecycle management solutions identify each file with a unique digital fingerprint. This method flags multiple copies of an identical file on the network and saves only the original and (typically) two backups. That way, if a file is emailed company-wide, your storage system saves only 3 copies, not 300.

Greater efficiency in data storage leads to:

• Increased employee efficiency - data is retrieved faster, saving work hours
• Reduced storage hardware costs - eliminating duplicate data reduces the amount of storage you need
• Longer system life - less stress is put on local hard drives and other storage devices
• Lower risk of data loss - frequent backups of company data keep your information safe in case of disaster or local IT failure
• Better use of IT personnel - employee hours are freed-up to work on networks, intranets, or other important IT projects

CUC's intelligent information lifecycle management systems automate data storage and retrieval while providing powerful, customizable management tools to your IT department.

• Set data retention values to meet compliance regulations. Each file is assigned a retention value based on governmental compliance regulations (SEC, HIPPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley) and the file's importance to your organization. Once the file's retention value is expired - whether that's in 6 months, 5 years, or 100 years - the file can be set for automatic deletion, potentially reducing your storage by 10s of terabytes of useless data.
• Create storage rules for specific file types. You can also set storage rules for specified file types to further optimize your data lifecycle management solution. For example, as we know that most fixed files are created, disseminated, and never used again, you may choose to set a rule for fixed files to reduce the space they use on local hard drives. You can opt to move fixed files to storage at the end of the workday, replacing the file with a pointer, or address, to the full file. The process is completely transparent to employees - the file (which is now actually a pointer) still appears to be on your employee's computer. When your employee clicks on the pointer, the full file is accessed from storage, creating a lag of only a few seconds.
• Store disaster recovery data based on its priority to your business. Choose to route data based on its priority to your business in case of disaster. CUC can create a multifaceted storage solution, incorporating mirroring, disk-to-disk, snapshot backup, and tape backup.

To discuss your information lifecycle management needs, call CUC at 1-800-874-8807. We will use our over two decades of experience in the IT storage industry to create a customized, cost-efficient storage management solution for your company.

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