Through the use of Imation's new VaultCenter software, files in any of the online or nearline "vaults" can be migrated between storage tiers - from fixed drives to RDX drives. The VaultCenter software also facilitates the creation and provisioning of vault properties such as retention, compliance and disaster recovery. Various settings can be managed automatically by the VaultCenter application, including data retention, encryption, compression, deduplication and digital fingerprinting.

Digital fingerprinting ensures that for every file sent to InfiniVault, a hash algorithm is performed to produce a digital fingerprint. The digital fingerprint is stored in the InfiniVault's internal control information system, which contains metadata for every file, allowing it to be mapped for retrieval.

The VaultCenter software virtualizes files to allow applications to access them. The files remain visible, even if the RDX cartridges are offline. Labeling, location, contents, operations and verification are all managed by the VaultCenter OS.

The VaultCenter software provides a single management framework that covers all four tiers of the InfiniVault system: online hard disk drives, nearline (RDX), offline and offline tiers.

The InfiniVault product has a starting price of about $15,000 range. No prices were yet available for the DataGuard appliance.