Centera
Simple, affordable, secure data archiving
EMC Centera: Content-addressable storage (CAS) platform for data archiving. Centera provides content authenticity, governance and compliance, long-term retention, and high availability with maximum efficiency and low total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Lower Costs. More Choices.
The 3rd generation of EMC object storage, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), is now available.
The 3rd generation of EMC object storage, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), is now available.
Content Authenticity
Centera ensures that your online, long-term archive data is authentic, cannot be overwritten, and is immutable with write once, read many (WORM) technology.
Governance and Compliance
Meet industry regulations and corporate requirements using a wide range of retention capabilities on a hardened platform with assured content authenticity and legal admissibility of content.
High Availability
Ensure data accessibility with redundant array of independent nodes (RAIN), flexible protection schemes, self-healing, and replication for unmatched protection and 99.999 percent availability.
Efficient Operation
Reduce TCO with seamless, nondisruptive scale and location-independent storage. Automate storage management tasks including self-configuring, self-healing, and virtual storage pools. Ensure low-capacity overhead with single-instance storage.
Broad Partner Ecosystem
Extend Centera investment value with more than 300 out-of-the box, integrated archiving applications to manage email, file, medical imaging, content management, videos, and voice archiving on a single archiving platform.
Options
Get online access and content authenticity wherever needed with a single, tamper-proof archive for capacity, scale, distance, and management requirements. EMC Centera offers the following options to meet your archiving needs:
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EMC Centera Compliance Edition Plus
Reach data storage requirements and regulatory compliance with content-addressed storage (CAS) and data archiving. -
EMC Centera Governance Edition
Safely store and manage electronic records according to organizational and application policies with content addressable storage (CAS).
Software
Provide business continuance and disaster recovery by copying archive data to remote data centers using technology embedded in EMC Centera.
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EMC Centera Universal Access
Enjoy the benefits of a storage system without adjusting your environment with archiving and document management. -
EMC Centera Virtual Archive
Consolidate archiving to a single cluster with virtualization and enterprisewide information management.
Compare
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Centera
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Centera Governance Edition
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Centera Compliance Edition Plus
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Enforced retention period
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Default retention
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No
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0 (configurable)
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Infinite
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Retention classes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Delete
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Yes
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If expired
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If expired
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Audited Delete
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No
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Yes
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No
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E-shredding
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Remote management
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Related Offerings
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EMC Captiva
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Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
A complete hardware and software hyperscale infrastructure solution for data center management.
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EMC SourceOne Archiving Family
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Resources
Analyst Reports
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Kahn Consulting, Inc. (KCI)
Evaluation of EMC Centera Governance Edition—Managing Electronic Records -
Taneja Group
Archiving Beyond File Systems: Object Storage—EMC Centera and Disk Archival
Customer Profiles
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Austin Radiological Association
Checks in EMC for Faster, Lower-Cost Backup and Recovery -
Huntington Bancshares
Customer Focus on Business Continuity -
Lone Star College System
EMC and VMware Cloud Infrastructure Transforms Delivery of IT as a Service to College