M.A.R.S. - The data safehouse

Archive data securely with M.A.R.S

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Initial situation

Depending on the industry within which they work, companies may be obliged to keep data available for up to 30 years and more. M.A.R.S. was created to act as a single platform providing tamper-proof storage and a universal interface for accessing data from any legacy system.

Your business needs to access information from legacy systems due to regulations, compliance guidelines, and audits. However, keeping these post-productive systems running in order to act as a simple reference would be disproportionately expensive and wasteful. These legacy environments create risks to your business and security. Obsolete hardware, unsupported software, and declining skillsets all combine to reduce your ability to respond to legal, compliance, or cybersecurity challenges. Furthermore, legacy systems tend to rank poorly in energy efficiency ratings, particularly in comparison to more carbon-friendly cloud infrastructures.

M.A.R.S. enables you to transfer 100% of your legacy data from a wide range of systems onto one single platform which enables you to shut down and retire the source systems. All data is available from anywhere and at any time in a read-only format, making it quick and easy to extract.

Benefits for the customer:

  • By using the M.A.R.S. platform and historicizing your source systems, you canyour overall operational costs by up to 90%, allowing you to deploy your valuable budget elsewhere.
  • All of the historical data is kept safely within the M.A.R.S. platform so that business and security risks are eliminated.
  • Keeping just the application data on M.A.R.S. enables your company to decommission the original source systems, streamline database architectures and lower your carbon footprint.
  • Having all the legacy data available to you on a single platform will save your employees' time and nerves. Thanks to the cloud-based architecture of M.A.R.S., your legacy data is available 24/7 from anywhere in the world, for as long as it is needed.

Your benefits with our solution

Secure

Business and security risks are eliminated

Compliant

Tamper-proof storage for your archived legacy systems

Cost-effective

Cut overall operational costs by up to 90%

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