Star Storage international certifies the SEAL product with Hitachi Data Systems
Star Storage announces the obtaining of Hitachi Content Platform 6.0 certification from Hitachi Data Systems – the world leader in storage and information management solutions – for the software product named SEAL (Secure Electronic Archive Library) – an integrated management system for electronic archives, in accordance with the stipulated standards by the legislation in force (Law 135/2007).Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is an “Object Storage” platform for unstructured content that allows long term archiving for fixed content and ensures high level performance, availability and scalability.
The Hitachi Data Systems certification for SEAL (Secure Electronic Archive Library) represents, for users, the quality guarantee of Star Storage product and recommendation of its use, together with the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP 6.0), as part of an integrated hardware and software platform in the field of safe and efficient data storage management. The certification proves the complete integration of SEAL with the latest version of Hitachi Content Platform 6.0 in compliance with strict criteria of electronic data management, including retention policies, security and robustness in case of disaster.
Besides, this certification confirms once again the value recognition of Star Storage products at international level, as well as the continuous apply of the innovation and investment company strategy in leading edge technologies.
In over more than 13 years, Star Storage has specialized in information protection and management solutions and has developed a suite of products and solutions dedicated to this area. SEAL (Secured Electronic Library Archive) is part of this suite and is an advanced management solution for electronic archives. This solution offers unique facilities for fast retrieval and access to information from repositories based on metadata.
Using SEAL, any public or private organization, regardless its size, can manage in a very efficient and fast way all electronic information, such as any type of document from the organization archives nomenclature; paper documents transposed into electronic through conversion procedures: contracts, technical documentation, etc.; documents issued and transmitted in electronic form: invoices, bank statements, notices, summons, emails, etc.; documents generated and transmitted by various information systems: audit logs, databases, EDI transactions, SEPA transactions.
In addition, the use of SEAL product from Star Storage together with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) from HDS, ensures high level performance, availability and scalability, allowing both optimal management of archived information in accordance with the legal regulations in force, as well as their easy retrieval.
“The obtained certification for SEAL product from Hitachi Data Systems proves once again, after the previous certifications received for the products Star Documentum Connector for Hitachi Content Platform and Star Alfresco Connector for Hitachi Content Platform, that Star Storage solutions are competitive not only local, but also at international level and is suitable for use with most advanced worldwide technologies, bringing significant added value.
The development of our SEAL product started from the desire of providing an efficient and complete solution for the electronic information archiving problem, both in terms of business needs, as well as from the perspective of the regulations in force. Currently, more and more organizations are facing the problem of electronic documents management, a problem that is getting worse rapidly due to the exponential growth of document volume and associated metadata involved in daily processes of any organization.
SEAL is a solution designed to respond effectively to the most demanding customer requirements related to electronic archives management and is adapted both for traditional use – onsite installation (on-premises) and new models for use in cloud (on-demand). Thus, SEAL is offered as a service in Cloud – StarVault eArchive, offering all benefits based on a monthly fee depending on usage (pay only what you use), without initial investments and having the guarantee of a high level of quality, availability and security. At the moment there are two versions available for the service: one in accordance with national legislation in the field of electronic archiving (Law 135/2007) – StarVault eArchive Compliance Edition and one in accordance with business needs of a private organization – StarVault eArchive Business Edition.” declared Catalin Paunescu, Managing Director Star Storage.
The users of SEAL from Star Storage obtained many important benefits, such as:
- Reduce their costs with archiving documents and use of archives;
- Quick retrieve and access to documents both after content and after metadata;
- Efficient in electronic archives management in daily processes of the organization;
- Increase document data security by regulating access;
- Audit all access for documents;
- Secure web access to archive including mobile devices;
- Reduce contact with documents on paper and eliminate the damage possibility of these;
- Possibility of restoring the original archive in case of disaster;
- Compliance with the requirements of documents archiving in accordance with the legislation in force (Law 135/2007).
SEAL integrates transparently with document capture solution StarCapture from Star Storage (application used for conversion of paper documents into electronic format) and document production and distribution services provided by the company. Thus, with SEAL help and using Star Storage Output Management Center services, can be generated and archived millions of documents based on variable data (invoices, account statements, notifications, etc.), printed documents, enveloped and distributed through traditional channels (postal and courier services), but also generated in the same time in an electronic format and distributed on alternative channels (email, portal, etc.).
About STAR STORAGE – INFORMATION MANAGEMENT | OUTSOURCING | CLOUD
Star Storage is a Romanian company with 100% private capital, leader in the field of storage, archiving and management (data and documents) solutions in Romania. With more than 13 years of experience on the Romanian market, Star Storage has developed an entire portfolio of solutions and services starting from the principle of complete integration throughout the entire life cycle of information generated by a company – from the moment of production up to the moment of storage or destruction: output management outsourcing services (document production), archiving management outsourcing, Cloud & Data Center outsourcing, IT infrastructure solutions and business solutions, all integrated with geospatial information management solutions (GIS). For more information about Star Storage, please visit the company’s website at www.star-storage.eu.