Fixed Content Management Solutions</H1>
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Information Lifecycle Management Technology Facilitates Fixed Content Applications There is an explosion of fixed content data on campus. Administrative requirements call for the retention and protection of traditional business documents such as student records and transcripts. Many schools are digitizing text content like older books and manuscripts and it is becoming more common to digitally store audio files such as lectures, or even rare sounds like bird and animal calls. University hospitals and departments conducting life science research need to be compliant with regulations governing patient records and clinical trials. In the US alone, many of state and federal regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) have been instated to govern the storage, availability and disposal of information. A holistic approach to Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) has emerged to migrate and store data based on relevance where it makes the most sense from a cost, speed and recency of retrieval perspective based on the most appropriate devices. Sun has products and solutions which lower the cost and speed time to implementation. ILM is the overriding architecture of creating a total solution consisting of "tiers" of storage that exhibit different Quality of Service (QoS) levels that directly relate to the current "importance" or relevancy of specific data. This facilitates budget efficiencies by placing less relevant data on less costly media, thus maximizing the utilization of priority class storage. Sun's comprehensive solution automatically manages that migration via a policy engine, thus also eliminating manual and costly intervention. This integrated infrastructure satisfies the life cycle management requirements of several applicational area, thus further increasing the ROI with a single investment. They include: Email: (Infinite Mailbox) This solution facilitates an automatic migration of email while providing continuous and real-time client access to all migrated data. PACS: Most hospitals are moving toward digitally recording MRI scans, Xrays and many other clinical tests. New HIPPA requirements mandate several retention requirements facilitated by the Sun ILM solution fMRI: Many college neurological departments engage in brain studies based on 3D imaging created from individual slices of MRI data. This solution provides excellent storage management and access to huge amounts of data. DAM: (Digital Asset Management) Many television broadcast studios are converting from film and video tape to digital archiving to solve a variety of problems, such as preservation of content, rapid access and reuse of content and elimination of huge facility costs of building and maintaining environmentally controlled warehouses. Digital Libraries: Distance Learning and document preservation are driving many Universities to convert several classes of data to digital. The Sun ILM infrastructure facilitates the management and access of huge files and records, easily. Text Business Records: Many "fixed content" records are not necessarily digital, but need to be maintained, protected and accessed of many years. Student Transcripts are a good example of this class of data. Sun's architectural solution can cost effectively manage and insure future access to these and other important University records. The huge benefit of the Sun solution is a single architecture that manages, migrates, protects a variety of both text and digital data and can be leveraged by multiple applications, thus solving a variety of complex issues with a single solution and guaranteeing a leadership Return on Investment.
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