Now Actifio customers can just as easily add a high performance “Vault” profile to their SLA portfolio, enabling them to move application data directly into Google’s new long-term storage platform, Google Cloud Storage Nearline.
Once an SLA including vaulting has been created and attached to an application – say, for production data aged beyond 3 months – the movement of that data into Cloud Storage Nearline is completely automated.
Actifio Sky offers near instant mounting of data volumes, even those stored on Cloud Storage Nearline’s object storage. It makes it easy to clone data from Cloud Storage Nearline, supporting copy data use cases including data analysis and compliance even for data that’s aged out of the data center or production cloud environment.
Application data is always compressed globally from production – across secondary use cases – to minimize the storage footprint. Also encrypted by a user-supplied pass phrase.
“Even our largest and most sophisticated enterprise customers are eager to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility of public cloud solutions such as Google Cloud Storage Nearline,” said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. “The challenge is that the scale and specificity of their business requirements often make it challenging for them to make the transition. Actifio’s application-centric approach to copy data management frees our customers from the constraints of any particular infrastructure. That makes Actifio the perfect solution to migrate late lifecycle data – automatically – into a cloud-based storage solution like Cloud Storage Nearline.”
