A near-line tape storage server application
Where data is knowledge - keeping track of your companies greatest assets
IDS Associated Product Set
Access to data is a critical productivity factor, and a key competitive edge. Users waiting even minutes for datasets can multiple in man days and man months of lost time - time that still has to be paid for.
The Intelligent Data Store helps effect the balance between near line tape storage and on line disk. That helps balance your costs, but still gives users their data.
Running IDS you don't need a dedicated library for backups, plus one for HSM and another for archiving and general near-line. The costs for managing multiple tape silos evaporate.