“South Africa based Intuate Group announced its partnership with Actifio, a Copy Data Virtualization platform that is designed to make information technology infrastructure more efficient and cost effective by reducing the copies of computer data an organisation must keep.
This partnership brings Intuate Group clients cutting-edge solutions for their data management requirements. Actifio’s system decouples data from infrastructure, enabling dramatic improvements in business resiliency, agility, and access to the cloud. Actifio replaces siloed data management applications, like backup, disaster recovery, and development and test data management with a simple, application-centric, SLA-driven system.
In essence, the technology lets customers capture data from production applications, manage it more economically, in the most efficient way possible, and use virtual or physical copies of the data whenever and wherever they need them, effectively reducing up to 80 percent of your copy data” says Mark Edwards, director and CTO at Intuate Group.
The Actifio Copy Data Virtualization platform is the industry’s first copy data management solution built to protect both physical and virtual servers. The system is optimised for VMware environments and is directly integrated with VMware vStorage API to virtualise the common data management functions – copy, store, move and restore – into a single storage platform. Key benefits include:
“Actifio’s technology is unrivalled,” continues Edwards. “Because of its innovative approach to managing copy data by eliminating multiple copies and radically simplifying data management, it can deliver significant savings to customers through reduced storage requirements, fewer software licenses, and lower management and network costs. At Intuate, we have already devised a deployment methodology where the client’s current backup management system can remain intact while the client adopts the Actifio solution.”
Greg Scorziello, general manager EMEA at Actifio, comments, “With Actifio, organisations of all sizes can essentially reverse their big data growth by copying data once and reusing it for multiple applications. By bringing Actifio’s proven virtualised storage solution to their clients, Intuate will further reinforce their trusted advisor status with their clients.”
