StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS)

StorSimple cloud-integrated storage provides primary storage, backup, archive, and disaster recovery, combined with Microsoft Azure. This allows you to optimize total storage costs and increase data protection and service agility. With StorSimple, you can integrate the public cloud with on-premises storage to reduce datacenter infrastructure complexity, maximize data protection, reduce overall storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by 60-80%, and provision storage more rapidly to reclaim IT time cycles.

Benefits

Some key benfits of StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) are given below

Reduce Overall Storage TCO by 60-80%

Significantly reduce storage capital expenses (primary backup, archives, disaster recovery (DR)) and related support cost.

Maximize Data Protection

Automate backups using local and cloud snapshots to ensure constant data protection. Dramatically improve recovery time objectives (RTO) by downloading only active data sets.

Reduce Datacenter Infrastructure Complexity

Deploy a single StorSimple system—integrated with Microsoft Azure Storage—to consolidate primary storage, backup hardware and software, archives, and disaster recovery.

Provision Storage More Rapidly and Reclaim IT Time Cycles

Add storage capacity in minutes for primary, archive, and backup data, and reclaim significant administrative time by automating backup and archiving procedures.

Test and Improve Disaster Recovery Function

Multi-location disaster recovery is now as fast and simple as mounting a cloud snapshot.

Capabilities

Enterprise-class storage

StorSimple solutions offer enterprise-class high-availability with fully redundant disk controllers, power supplies, network connections and no single point of failure. They also support non-disruptive software upgrades.

AES-256 security

All data stored in the cloud with StorSimple has AES-256 encryption applied to it. The encryption key is never given to StorSimple or the cloud provider, ensuring complete data privacy to support compliance requirements as stringent as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Solid state disk performance with cloud elasticity + economics

Applications get local SSD performance with the elasticity of the cloud through automatic tiering based on a BlockRankTM algorithm that does for blocks of content what Page Rank does for Google.

Instant thin provisioning of massive live archives

Instant thin provisioning enables you to provision Instantly and thinly provision massive archive volumes with live access and cloud economics. Automatic tiering moves older blocks to the cloud without the need for complex archival procedures

Fast backup and near instant restore using the cloud

Incremental, deduplicated snapshots reduce storage requirements by more than 90%, while delivering instant snapshot and restore technology in minutes as opposed to days. Cloud Snapshots offer offsite data protection via the cloud. It is now simple and cost-effective to retain as many snapshots as you need – no more 30, 60 or 90-day limits.

Fast multi-location disaster recovery without tape

Backups made to the cloud can be recovered to the same location or a different location. Disaster recovery is now as fast and simple as mounting a volume. Now you can replace tape without having to double your storage infrastructure investment.

One solution means simple integrated management

Separate primary storage, archival, backup/restore, and disaster recovery hardware means multiple separate management consoles. One integrated console makes it dramatically simpler to manage the whole storage infrastructure, freeing up IT resources.

Application-optimized storage and data protection

Application-optimized volumes are supported for Windows file shares, SharePoint and VMware libraries. Full support for VSS application-consistent snapshots is provided.

Sunday, April 27, 2014