Digital Asset & Document Enterprise Content Management

The TeraStack^® Solution's digital asset and document enterprise content management solution provides any organization a secure and reliable way to store the growing data needs for today's digital assets and electronic records and enterprise content as we are moving away from traditional paper transactions with typical day-to-day business. It is vital for any employee or customer to have quick and seamless access to this data. The TBYTe^® provides an enterprise application server with up to 28 terabytes (TB) of online data storage and up to eight hot-swappable 6.25TB optical volumes for up to 50 terabytes (TB) of nearline data storage. The TBYTe^® is a scalable data storage solution utilizing hierarchical storage management providing online, nearline, and offline data storage capabilities in one solution.

Organizations have begun to become "paperless" or "minimal paper" in their operations. This is accomplished with new data storage technology for scanning in large amounts of different documents and having the ability to recognize text characters which creates a searchable document. Digital Asset Management to include document scanning is paramount for any Fortune 500 business. An 8.5"x11" scanned page in JPG format averages 301 KB in size while the same document in JPEG 2000 format is about 169 KB. A scanner operating at 200 pages per minute continuously for 24 hours will generate 288,000 pages per day. Using a JPG file format those 288,000 pages will consume about 86.7 GB per day while the JPEG 2000 format will accumulate approximately 48.7 GB per day. The TeraStack^® Solution offers data integrity, volume, and security when processing documents. Each TeraStack^® Solution unit can easily contain up to 166 million JPEG documents or 295 million JPEG 2000 documents, fulfilling your digital asset management requirements.

Many different types of organizations are utilizing this type of data capture. Law firms, human resource departments, architecture firms, and many others are all beginning to use scanners and electronic document production to minimize their reliance on paper. As the size of a company grows, multiple scanners are distributed among different departments and locations. A single TeraStack^® Solution unit can support a multitude of separate scanners in order to maximize document throughput capabilities with high-speed operations in a scalable data storage solution.

Data availability and integrity is of paramount concern for the storage of virtually all long term data. IT administrators have long had to deal with the migration of data to new storage media technologies or new systems altogether because of the relatively short lifespan of those storage technologies. Hard drives have an approximate 3-5 year useful lifecycle and tape follows closely with 5-7 years of useable lifetime. The recurring shuffle of hard drives and magnetic tapes is now an issue of the past for the long term preservation of data with the introduction of high-density Blu-ray optical media and the TeraStack^® Solution. The short lifetimes of tape and hard drive media, due in part to their mechanical and magnetic nature, have resulted in the use of redundant backup practices to compensate for their shortfall requiring extra media, management, space, and energy. Blu-ray optical media data integrity is manufacturer rated for up to 100 years for write-once media and over 50 years for rewritable media.

Hie Electronics, Inc. offers the TeraStack^® Solution TBYTe 8.6.6 and the TBYTe 8.14.28 multi-tiered storage and application processing platforms providing a "data center in box" approach to critical data backup that can help alleviate many of the space, power, and cost limitations associated with today's storage environments. Whether a data storage technology refresh is necessary or some efficiency improvements need to be made, the TeraStack^® Solution provides a turn-key system that can help solve many of the problems associated with today's storage issues dealing with Digital Asset and Document Enterprise Content Management.