OverviewBusiness data continues to grow exponentially with anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of this data residing as inactive on expensive storage systems where it can wreak havoc for organizations trying to balance long-term retention of business data with bottom line economics. Even though the data is aged and static, many businesses must still consider it as important and necessary for future reference, as well as data that must be retained for regulatory compliance. Since the classification of data (business value, access frequency, retention requirements, etc) continuously changes over time, so should the storage type and location of this data also change accordingly in order to maximize operational and cost efficiencies? Data archiving solutions offer the best opportunity for IT to identify which files are no longer active within the organization and thus not necessary to keep on expensive primary storage tiers. So where does IT put the inactive data? Should they expend scarce capital to purchase more secondary storage that will need to be maintained and managed? Do they continue to invest in unreliable, costly, and cumbersome tape backup solutions and operations? Or does IT have other options that are more economical, simpler, and efficient to store data archives without interruption to the business and can impact the bottom line? TwinStrata CloudArray for Online Archives enables IT to adopt a more efficient and economical solution with a flexible, easy, and reliable way to off-site migration of your data archives to cloud storage. Small and even mid-size organizations, seldom handle tape properly leaving them exposed to data loss. CloudArray can provide them with an integrated backup and archiving solution, so IT users can build an off-site archive keeping the most active data along with the full text index local while pushing the older data to a cloud storage provider. CloudArray thin-provisioned data volumes for file/archive expansion to cloud storage | SolutionCloudArray for Online Archives is the industry's most cost–effective, scalable off-site data protection system that allows companies with static content to enjoy reduced primary storage costs by migrating archived data to their choice of cloud storage provider. By optimizing the total storage environment, CloudArray delivers a proven solution that meets critical business objectives for secure, long–term data retention at an affordable cost. CloudArray helps businesses of all sizes cut the cost of storage by decreasing the management of onsite archives on expensive Tier 1 disks significantly. Many companies, therefore, are seeking to control escalating costs needed to manage inactive or stale data down to the essentials and archive infrequently used content. But what should you archive, how should you do it, and what best practices apply? To compound this problem, many businesses must adhere to ever-changing legal and compliance requirements and must institute initiatives that require the retention of more data for longer periods of time. These compliance initiatives can quickly result in significant data growth. BenefitsCloudArray for Online Archives can immediately transform your disk-to-disk-to- tape operations to a more efficient enterprise-class disk-to-disk-to-CLOUD storage strategy providing benefits such as: - Reclaim primary storage and defer storage hardware costs
- Reduce risks associated with data retention and information governance
- Increase productivity with fast, transparent, self-service access to archives on cloud storage
- Make tiered storage a reality and improve business agility
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