Clearpace Integrates NParchive With EMC(R) Centera(TM) Content Addressed Storage

LONDON -

- Integration With NParchive Allows Structured Data to be Preserved and Queried Directly on EMC Centera

Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, www.clearpace.com today announced it has completed integration between NParchive and EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS). EMC Centera is the world’s most simple, affordable and secure repository for information archiving. It is a purpose-built, software-driven storage platform that provides a myriad of new capabilities for unlocking the business value from unchanging or infrequently changing digital assets such as historical data from application databases.

NParchive is a purpose built software repository for structured or semi-structured data which has been integrated with EMC Centera. This integration means that the NParchive repository can sit seamlessly on Centera. Typical data sets would be from any packaged or custom database application (Oracle, DB2, Peoplesoft ++) and use cases could be application retirement or archiving of aged data amongst others.

The integration of NParchive with Centera allows inactive relational data from any database or log file to be stored on the Centera storage platform while preserving full SQL access through industry standard reporting tools. This new capability extends mutual customers’ uses of Centera, using it to deploy structured data archives alongside existing email and file archives.

“The NParchive integration with Centera delivers real value to end-user organisations planning database archiving or application retirement initiatives,” says John Bantleman, CEO of Clearpace. “With this joint solution our mutual customers can preserve historical data from production or legacy applications on the Centera platform while keeping that data fully accessible. NParchive’s extreme data compression which can exceed 40:1 allied with zero upfront design and low-touch ongoing maintenance dramatically reduces the cost of managing legacy data. The bottom line is that NParchive looks, smells and feels like a traditional database or data warehouse on the Centera platform without any of the headache or cost of managing data in those complex environments.”

Andrew Collins, EMC Global Alliances Director, said, “The integration between EMC Centera and Clearpace’s NParchive benefits joint customers who are deploying application archiving or retirement initiatives by unlocking the value in inactive relational data from any database or log file, while lowering costs and making it easier to manage and share this information.”

The integration of NParchive with Centera uses the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) interface, providing a simple and standards-based approach for deploying structured data archives. This enables simple and rapid deployment of the joint solution benefiting mutual partners and end-users.

About Clearpace

Clearpace Software Ltd is a software company that provides data archive store solutions for the long-term retention of structured data within the enterprise. Clearpace has become a pioneer in the database archiving market by providing archive stores that are the optimal destination for inactive data that has been removed from production systems.

The Clearpace NParchive software enables organisations with large and growing data estates to massively reduce the cost and complexity of storing historical information while making archived data easily accessible for regulatory, legal and business purposes. Using NParchive, companies are able to store as much as 60x more historical information on commodity hardware. Clearpace serves a variety of industries, including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Energy, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Retail and the Public Sector.

For more information visit www.clearpace.com

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Richard Botley, Chameleon PR +44(0)207-680-5500

Source: Clearpace

Contact details: Richard Botley, Chameleon PR +44(0)207-680-5500