BridgeHead Software and Young Minds Collaborate to Deliver Compliant DVD Archiving Solution for Long-term Data Retention
Woburn, MA (PRWEB) August 26, 2006
USA-based Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) and BridgeHead Software today announced that BridgeHead’s suite of compliance-enabling storage management and data protection solutions has been integrated with YMi’s DVD-based Recording and Library product portfolio.
YMi provides a complete line of data storage and archiving hardware solutions based on CD and DVD recording, while BridgeHead‘s multi-platform software solutions are designed for archive, enterprise backup, media management and disaster recovery. Both companies’ solutions are optimized for mid - to large - organizations.
The objective of the collaboration was to integrate BridgeHead’s advanced policy-driven archive software with YMi’s archive hardware, resulting in a physically-robust archive solution that enables customers to comply easily with current data retention regulations and legislation.
Available through YMi’s master distributor Data Assurance, the combined solution will provide highly functional solutions for corporate customers and new opportunities for resellers to deploy ‘compliant archive’ solutions that are already integrated with storage management and Information Lifecycle Management functions.
There are significant benefits from the successful combination of DVD recordable (DVD-R/+R) media and BridgeHead’s Integrated Storage Management (ISM) software portfolio:
BridgeHead solutions employ a proactive, policy-based approach, identifying data that meet the conditions of a given archive policy and automatically migrating it to secondary storage. YMi’s hardware delivers solutions that are reliable, scalable, cost-effective and easy to use. DVD media will be readable for decades. Metadata and text indexing ensures an archive is fully searchable making the archive both useful and compliant. BridgeHead’s HT FileStore holds the all-important archive store metadata in its own database, which can itself be backed up and replicated to protect it. Unlike ‘stubbing’ techniques, this means that the stubs are not vulnerable to loss of the server on which the stubs reside. There is no vendor lock-in, and data may be replicated to other media as required. The ‘removable’ characteristic of DVD archive media and YMi’s standards compliance also makes DVD particularly effective as part of a wider disaster recovery strategy. It is ideal in hostile environments such as heat, cold, sand or damp, where other media such as disk or tape are vulnerable to rapid physical degradation.
Bob Levine of Data Assurance, which will distribute the solutions, said: “BridgeHead and YMi develop solutions for the same high-end customers, and the technologies are highly complimentary. The successful integration of the two elements enables us to provide more complete, turn-key solutions to both VARs and corporate end-users.”
Andrew Young, chairman and co-founder of Young Minds Inc., said: “YMi’s core strength is its technology: the physical attributes of the solutions, their reliability and cost-efficiency. Today’s announcement describes an integration with software that has similar attributes, resulting in a powerful solution for all our customers.”
Tony Cotterill, CEO at BridgeHead Software, said: “One of the big selling points for this solution will be its rapid return on investment, which is important for companies of any size. And, since both our software and YMi’s hardware adhere to international standards in force, customers can enjoy extra confidence in the resilience of the overall integration.”
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About Young Minds (www. ymi. com)
Founded in 1989, Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) provides a complete line of data storage and archiving solutions that utilize CD and DVD recording. YMi pioneered CD-Recording and CD-ROM mass storage in the UNIX market, and continues to deliver the most innovative solutions that are reliable, cost-effective and easy to use. Andrew Young, Chairman and co-founder of the company, authored the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocols, which define additional functionality for ISO 9660 standard discs used in UNIX environments.
About Data Assurance (www. data-a. com)
Data Assurance provides tools that increase efficiency and lower costs for accessing, storing, and distributing data. As the master distributor of Young Minds products, Data Assurance provides a broad portfolio of industry-leading data storage solutions. Major markets for Data Assurance include banking, defense, aerospace, and healthcare.
About BridgeHead Software (www. BridgeHeadSoftware. com)
BridgeHead Software is a software development company with a total focus on integrated storage management software.
Over the past 12 years, BridgeHead’s technology has helped IT organizations leverage their investment in applications and underlying storage from leading vendors. BridgeHead Software’s Integrated Storage Management suite of products provides backup, archive, migration, replication, storage media management and disaster recovery for files, email, images and structured data. BridgeHead has an established worldwide customer base and a growing international distribution network that provides sales, support, training and consulting services to major markets worldwide.
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