GRAU DATA – your partner for archiving business critical data

The aim of the archiving process is to store data securely and for the long-term, as well as making it quickly and easily accessible as and when required.

Numerous legal requirements, for example, the German GDPdU or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in the USA, demand audit-compliant archiving of all business-relevant data in such a way that the data cannot be modified during it's lifecycle.

The majority of businesses implement an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy for this purpose.

GRAU DATA has developed a product range which provides flexible and scalable solutions for archiving all business data. Depending on the individual requirements, the archive data can be stored centrally or distributed, locally or remotely, on hard drives and/or on magnetic tapes.

The ARCHIVEMANAGER meets the requirements of small and medium-sized companies as well as petabyte-sized projects for large concerns.

The latest product, FILELOCK, allows the customer to use their existing SAN infrastructure to implement an audit-compliant, WORM archiving system at low cost.

History

GRAU Automation in Böhmenkirch entered into the world of storage in 1988 with the market introduction of a mainframe-based magnetic tape library system.

The ABBA/2 magnetic tape library system was connected to an IBM mainframe system. (1993)

The ABBA range, which was later renamed AML – Automated Media Library – became the worldwide trademark of GRAU thanks to its reliability and multimedia capability.

After the company was sold to an American market participant, Herbert Grau and Ulrich Lechner started out again in 1998: GRAU DATA were quick to recognise that ILM and archiving were set to become a new major trend alongside network backup. The innovative INFINISTORE concept was an integrated archiving system with magnetic tape library, network computers, diskdrives and a first generation archiving software.

INFINISTORE: Models XL and M. (2003, 2000)

Over a hundred INFINISTORE systems, one of the first so-called NAS or archive appliance systems worldwide, were installed in Germany and the rest of Europe.

Concentrating on software

The development of Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and the second generation of archiving software shifted the focus onto software. In 2005, HP announced an archiving software with the name File System Extender (FSE), an OEM product from GRAU DATA.

Since 2008, the focus has been placed on the GRAU branded product ARCHIVEMANAGER and FILELOCK.

Today, GRAU DATA is a flexible, highly-productive, medium-sized company with many years of experience in the HSM and archiving sectors which markets their software products globally via distributors, resellers, integrators and OEMs.