Meet Compliance & Perform Analysis on Retained Communications Data
RainStor partners with leading communications solution providers that embed RainStor’s specialized database with the purpose of storing data long term in order to meet industry compliance regulations, for lawful intercept purposes and also to provide continuous online access for query and analysis, at a fraction of the TCO, compared to a traditional database or data warehouse approach.
RainStor’s communications partners – spanning operational and business support systems (OSS / BSS) – enable customers to achieve significant hardware and storage savings largely driven by massive compression capabilities, high-speed ingestion and ease of scale as data volumes grow.
Organizations including Amdocs are enabling customers to keep detailed subscriber data for longer time-periods beyond the billing cycle in order to provide greater analysis for both internal business functions but also for consumers who need ongoing access to their usage data through a custom-portal.
On the operational support systems (OSS) side, RainStor partners enable operators to keep network log data for months and sometimes years so that they can perform diagnostics and ongoing performance monitoring to ensure the health and stability of the network, which is the backbone of the communications industry.
Global communications service providers (CSPs) are faced with strict compliance regulations that dictate online retention of all call detail records, SMS/MMS and web browsing content (WAP) which has now reached petabyte scale spanning months and years of usage data. Storing this data in a traditional database is not only extremely cost prohibitive but is technically impossible due to the large daily volumes that need to be quickly ingested as they are collected off the network.
Providers of dedicated solutions for CSP’s can benefit from an embedded RainStor database by:
- Dedicated storage of large volumes of usage data to meet strict compliance regulations
- Fast deployment and low maintenance of a dedicated RainStor repository for ongoing query and analysis of subscriber usage data
- Historical data offload from the core billing application database to improve overall performance, reduce costs and maintain long-term access to critical data.
- Auto-purging records once expiry policies are met or retain records for legal hold in order to satisfy requests for lawful investigative purposes.
Key Features & benefits for CSP’s include:
Immediate gains:
- Dramatically shrink the storage capacity required to retain big data
- Reduce the size of production, improve performance, and lower IT maintenance costs
- For cloud deployments or hosted solutions, provide a multi -tenanted environment that can easily scale.
Long-term gains:
- Eliminate or reduce software license and maintenance costs of legacy applications or traditional databases that prove inadequate
- Retain and provide easy access to inactive data over long periods of time
- Auto-expire down to the record level.
Upside for RainStor Partners Serving Global CSPs:
- Create new revenue channel by providing a new solution offering
- Eliminate dependence on a single database technology
- For hosted solutions, reduce infrastructure costs and improve service levels.
