New Reseller: HMK’s Successor Organization is Taunhaus GmbH.
Taunhaus GmbH is the new reseller for GRAU DATA. Graduate engineer Helmut Mühl-Kühner is the CEO of Taunhaus GmbH and was the decisive factor for the success of SAM/FS in Europe. “We are proud that he and his colleagues have agreed to serve as new distribution partners for our HSM & archiving software,” says GRAU DATA’s CEO Herbert Grau.
Click on this link to learn more about Taunhaus GmbH: www.taunhaus.de
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Case Study Aviation High-tech: Saving and archiving test flight data
Cassidian, the security and defence company of EADS uses the GRAU DATA archive manager for HSM-based adminstration of test flight data
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“The data from our test flights must never be lost, because analysing flight test data is essential for developing and improving our flight systems," says Günter Müller, IT Department Head of Cassidian’s test flights at the Manching military aircraft centre.
Cassidian, the defence wing of the EADS, is a leading global provider of defence and security solutions. The company supplies ultramodern defence systems for the entire functional chain: from sensors to command systems to fighter jets and drones. In the security division, Cassidian has developed solutions around the world for border surveillance systems, cyber-security, and safe communication systems. Cassidian’s military aircraft centre is located in Manching. One of this facility’s primary functions is to develop and test all military aircraft. The data’s sensitivity and irreplaceability could hardly be more extreme than at Cassidian. That is why multiple, absolutely reliable and redundant data storage is indispensible.
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Cassidian company was intrigued by the enormous flexibility in several dimensions of GRAU DATA’s archiving system. This system can realise processes that the IT team has long desired but could not implement due to the limitations of the previous system.
Flexible HSM adapts to IT strategy
The GRAU DATA archive manager is a tiered storage HSM and archiving software program for Windows and Linux platforms. The solution is highly scalable and lets you use between 1 terabyte to several petabytes. The archive manager is completely independent from the hardware and can be used in combination with the systems of all important manufacturers for performance disk, archive disk, or LTO band archives. Existing infrastructures such as Cassidian’s high-end SAN, which is based primarily on FalconStor solutions, Transtec’s secondary disk system, or Sony’s LTO4-based band archive, can be integrated with GRAU DATA’s archive manager seamlessly.
GRAU DATA’s archive manager ensures that Cassidian’s demands for flexibility and extremely high data security are met. Together with their partner and reseller GID, the archive manager was integrated into Cassidian’s existing data storage infrastructure in early 2011 and, following comprehensive testing using custom-programmed routines and rules, was released online in April.
GRAU DATA’s archive manager ensures that Cassidian’s demands for flexibility and extremely high data security are met. Together with their partner and reseller GID, the archive manager was integrated into Cassidian’s existing data storage infrastructure in early 2011 and, following comprehensive testing using custom-programmed routines and rules, was released online in April.
Hierarchical storage
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The test flight data is stored inside the aircraft inside shockproof, temperature-controlled boxes on solid state disks. In the first step, the raw data are copied onto a high-performance SAN at Cassidian. At the same time, the first data backup occurs on an LTO4 tape. This ensures that the raw data are saved numerous times at different locations so they cannot be lost. In the next step, the raw data are calibrated on the SAN and processed. It is only in this condition that the data can be used by the engineers for analysis. The prepared data are available for about two weeks on the high-access SAN for immediate analysis before they are automatically transferred by the GRAU DATA archive manager to a less highly-powered secondary disk RAID, where they are simultaneously archived in the band archive. The Petabyte GRAU DATA HSM file system provides the main functionality for moving, copying, and archiving data from the GRAU DATA archive manager. The processes and rules that govern automated data transfer to the various storage pools were written and programmed by Cassidian.
“We chose the GRAU DATA archive manager because it is reliable, powerful, and especially capable of adapting to our needs and structures. It allows us to change our processes at any time without being bound by the rigid structures of classic archiving systems,” explained Müller.
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GRAU DataSpace 2.0 Chosen as Product of the Month
Schwäbisch Gmünd, February 5, 2013 – GRAU DataSpace 2.0 file-sharing solution was chosen as product of the month in a survey of readers of SearchStorage. GRAU DataSpace is a secure platform that enables businesses to make available data in the cloud to more than 100,000 coworkers and also allows those coworkers to share the data in compliance with legal regulations. With GRAU DataSpace, uncontrolled data sharing via public and insecure consumer platforms can be replaced by a secure in-house solution, and email traffic can be significantly reduced by decreasing the volume of the attached files. Version 2.0 of GRAU DataSpace, which offers additional functions, will be available starting in May 2013.
“The results of the readers’ survey clearly show us that businesses have a great need for file-sharing products. But the results also make it clear that businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the problems related to data security and compliance in publically accessible file-sharing products. They’re realizing that action needs to be taken to address these issues,” explains Herbert Grau, chairman of the board of GRAU DATA AG.
The readers’ survey was carried out by SearchStorage.de in January 2013.
GRAU DATA and Aal Stasjon Announce the Largest Video Archive Site in Norway
Utilizing the GRAU DATA ArchiveManager Active Archiving solution and LTO tape
Schwabisch Gmund, Germany, December 14, 2011. GRAU DATA AG is proud to announce that Aal Stasjon, the largest Scandinavian video and TV service provider in Norway, selected the GRAU DATA ArchiveManager and open sourced OpenArchive Active Archive solution for their video archive site.
The ArchiveManager software will manage the fast growing volume of post-production and TV broadcast data. Currently, ten TV broadcast systems simultaneously move several TBs of data per day into the archive. The CTO of the Aal Stasjon data center, Bjorn Bruedeli remarks: “We have chosen the GRAU DATA active archiving software because of its client-server architecture which allows us to scale the throughput of our fast growing archive.” He adds “We are very pleased with the robustness and functionality of the product, in addition to its capability to support a Petabyte scale archive at a reasonable cost.”
The customer systems for video ingest and editing is based on Windows and Mac, using CIFS/NFS and AFP (Netatalk) over VPN lines to the archive. The ArchiveManager solution includes 9 virtual ArchiveManager clients connected to 4 physical machines with Nexsan disk storage and 2 LTO tape libraries. The GRAU DATA archiving solutions for Windows and Linux environments are hardware independent and can be used with any previously installed storage infrastructure. This hardware independence helps to ensure that data can be read and processed many years from now as hardware archiving technology evolves.
“We are delighted to have Aal Stasjon as a customer,” says Herbert Grau, founder and CEO of GRAU DATA. “Video archiving is in addition to the archiving of medical and scientific data the segments with the fastest growing data volumes.”
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Partnership between GRAU DATA and EASY SOFTWARE AG
The new partnership between the GRAU DATA AG and the EASY SOFTWARE AG makes possible a cost-effective archiving solution with the new product EASY FileLock that’s guaranteed to be audit-compliant from the first step to the last. Schwaebisch Gmünd, Juli 23, 2010. To comply with relevant legislation, many business-relevant data must be inalterably stored according to legal stipulations which differ from one country to another. In the past, this audit-compliant storage has meant that businesses must make cost-intensive investments in specialized hardware. But now the situation has changed! The strategic partnership between GRAU DATA and EASY SOFTWARE AG has resulted in a collaborative product called “EASY FileLock,” which provides economical and innovative options for the inalterable storage of data.
As an expression of the intensive collaboration between the two businesses, this collaborative product will be included as a fully integrated solution on the servers that EASY SOFTWARE AG will install in the future. Businesses can therefore build their entire archiving solution upon existing hardware or hardware from their customary preferred supplier.
With the goal of “Simplifying Compliance,” the partnership promises to deliver a forward-looking technology that makes it drastically simpler for businesses to comply with legal regulations and that can be implemented in an efficiently and effectively designed manner.
About EASY SOFTWARE AG
Since its founding in 1990, the EASY SOFTWARE AG has concentrated on the archiving of electronic documents and data, as well as on the management of documents and emails. EASY SOFTWARE records every type of mass data, and also structures and orders the flow of documents. It ensures audit-compliant long-term archiving and keeps contents and information accessible throughout the enterprise and independently of time and place – so there’s no lengthy searching, no loss of data, and no heaps of paper on overstuffed archive shelves.Market-Leading Solutions
With more than 10,000 client installations, EASY SOFTWARE AG ranks among the leading developers and suppliers of platform-independent solutions in the fields of electronic archiving, document management and enterprise content management.
On the basis of ultramodern technologies, EASY SOFTWARE AG offers user-oriented document-management software for commonly used operating systems, working environments and file formats. At the same time, EASY is capable of delivering custom-tailored solutions to optimize document-based processes for every branch of industry and for businesses of every size. The EASY ENTERPRISE document and archive server forms the basis of EASY’s product portfolio, which also includes seamlessly integrated archive solutions in the surroundings of selected standard software such as SAP, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Office.
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European Data Storage Company, GRAU DATA AG, Partners With North American Storage Technology Reseller STORAGE CLARITY
Offering Simplified Deployment, Operation & Compliance of Disk-based Archive Storage SystemsCalgary, Alberta, Canada – GRAU DATA AG, a global data storage technology company, announced today that it has signed North American Reseller, Storage Clarity, to resell its FileLock disk archiving software in North America.
As a reseller of FileLock, Storage Clarity will be able to offer customers simplified deployment and operation of disk based storage and take advantage of compliance enabling features such as WORM data authenticity, time based file retention and extended file security. FileLock brings powerful competitive advantages to resellers seeking to complement their NAS and SAN disk storage solutions with software which enables key archiving functionalities.
Graham Irving, President of Storage Clarity noted, “With FileLock from GRAU DATA AG, Storage Clarity will now be able to market a comprehensive total storage offering that includes archiving as a key area of growth to our partners and customers. Customers who need to look into effective and robust archive data storage with an additional requirement for legal compliance will now benefit from the solution. FileLock not only offers secure archiving on existing spinning disk solutions, it connects transparently to applications in our key vertical markets, including Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Legal”
“GRAU DATA AG is very pleased to be working with STORAGE CLARITY because of their wealth of experience with the needs of markets and customers in the archiving space,” commented Herbert Grau CEO of GRAU DATA. “Their ability to offer best-of-breed disk storage solutions along with FileLock software to their customers and partners will provide excellent value to customers seeking a cost effective and open archiving solution.”
About Storage Clarity
Storage Clarity is a full service value added reseller and integrator specializing in archiving, compliance and data-protection storage solutions and services. The company's goal is building lasting partner and customer relationships to deliver innovative, reliable, and cost effective solutions. Established in 2009, Storage Clarity is a privately held company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For press inquiries, please contact Graham Irving at (403) 764-1320 or graham@storageclarity.com. Additional information on Storage Clarity is available on www.storageclarity.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GRAU DATA releases OpenArchive.
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, March 11, 2009. Effective immediately, the GRAU DATA AG will release its OpenArchive archiving software as open source. This high-performance software product is ideal for businesses that need secure, long-term archiving for a large number of files and a constantly growing volume of data.OpenArchive offers nearly all of the functions of ArchiveManager archiving software, i.e. GRAU DATA’s license-obligatory product, which is used by more than 160 customers around the world. Scaleable from one terabyte to several petabytes, OpenArchive can readily integrate existing hardware such as RAID systems, Linux servers and/or LTO-based tape libraries.
In addition to the greatest possible data security (because as many copies as desired can be saved locally and/or remotely), the choice of storage media is also entirely free. Whether one opts for a disk storage system, magnetic tapes or a combination of the two, OpenArchive supports the option of a custom-tailored, tiered-storage solution.
The original file structure is preserved, so users can access data in their accustomed manner. And compatibility to existing and future archiving applications such as DMS, e-mail, files, audio, video, PACS and engineering makes OPENARCHIV an open solution with a bright future.
At www.OpenArchive.net, the software can be downloaded to be used productively as a virtual machine for testing or as source code on the basis of Linux Red Hat or SuSe. The Affero General Public License was chosen as a license model.
GRAU DATA decided in favor of the open-source model for two reasons: on the one hand, to give its customers the greatest security in caring for and further developing the software; and, on the other hand, to achieve worldwide dissemination of OpenArchive.
GRAU ArchiveManager replaces the HP File System Extender
Hewlett Packard ceased active sales of the File System Extenders, the OEM product from GRAU DATA on 1 December, 2007.
With over 150 installations throughout the world, the product has proven itself to be a hardware-independent, stable and scalable archiving solution for the Windows and Linux platforms. GRAU DATA will, as a result, increasingly promote the sales of their own product the ArchiveManager.
GRAU DATA will migrate existing HP FSE customers over to the ArchiveManager. This is an unproblematic task as both products are binary compatible. In August 2008, HP sent the following message to all of their FSE clients.
Sales of the ArchiveManager as well as the derivative products will, in future, be carried out via HP C&I as well as qualified ILM sales partners in Europe and the USA.
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To: HP File System Extender (FSE) Customers
Subject: Additional HP FSE Support and Migration Options
Date: August, 2008
Dear (FSE Customer),
The end-of-life for the HP File System Extender (FSE) product was announced in December of 2007 with HP support for FSE discontinuing as of December 1st, 2010. As specified in that announcement, HP will support the FSE product as defined below for existing HP FSE software customers with an active FSE service contract: through the end-of-life period.
- Access to HP to place support calls;
- Access to defect fixes as made available by HP. HP will continue to review reported FSE software defects and address critical issues. However, HP will not add new features or new functionality to the FSE software;
- Support renewals that expire before Dec 1 2010 are permitted within the discontinuance period.
Key Points:
- GDS is the Original Equipment Manufacturer of FSE
- GDS ArchiveManager and HP FSE are binary compatible, so GDS ArchiveManager can read all data and metadata written by FSE.
- GRAU has already successfully migrated multiple FSE customers to ArchiveManager in the last few months.
If you have any questions on the migration, please contact your HP Sales Representative or reseller.
Sincerely,
Hewlett-Packard Company