Grau Openarchive Archiving Software as Open Source

Effective immediately, the Grau Data AG will release its Openarchive archiving software as open source. This high-performance software product is ideal for businesses that need secure, long-term archiving for a large number of files and a constantly growing volume of data.

Openarchive offers nearly all of the functions of Archivemanager archiving software, i.e. Grau Data’s license-obligatory product, which is used by more than 160 customers around the world. Scaleable from one terabyte to several petabytes, Openarchive can readily integrate existing hardware such as RAID systems, Linux servers and/or LTO-based tape libraries.

In addition to the greatest possible data security (because as many copies as desired can be saved locally and/or remotely), the choice of storage media is also entirely free. Whether one opts for a disk storage system, magnetic tapes or a combination of the two, Openarchive supports the option of a custom-tailored, tiered-storage solution.

The original file structure is preserved, so users can access data in their accustomed manner. And compatibility to existing and future archiving applications such as DMS, e-mail, files, audio, video, PACS and engineering makes Openarchive an open solution with a bright future.

The software can be downloaded to be used productively as a virtual machine for testing or as source code on the basis of Linux Red Hat or SuSe. The Affero General Public License was chosen as a license model.

Grau Data decided in favor of the open-source model
for two reasons:

• on the one hand, to give its customers the greatest security in caring for and further developing the software; and,
• to achieve worldwide dissemination of Openarchive.

Grau Archivemanager replaces
the HP File System Extender
HP ceased active sales of the File System Extenders, the OEM product from Grau Data on 1 December, 2007. With over 150 installations throughout the world, the product has proven itself to be a hardware-independent, stable and scalable archiving solution for the Windows and Linux platforms. Grau Data will, as a result, increasingly promote the sales of their own product the Archivemanager.

Grau Data will migrate existing HP FSE customers over to the Archivemanager. This is an unproblematic task as both products are binary compatible.