At Data Dynamics, we are passionate about file management. Our belief is that You should always have control of your files. You control where they are located. You control access to the files. And importantly, your files should never be trapped by proprietary software. To be clear, proprietary gateways, virtual file systems and namespaces and file archive solutions that compress, de-duplicate, stub or shard your files, trap your files in a never-ending cycle of license and maintenance fees.
What is different at Data Dynamics?
Just recently we unveiled StorageX 8.0, the latest release of our flagship file management solution. StorageX 8 introduces a powerful, integrated analytics engine and support for file-to-object conversion for file archival. Together, you perform deep discovery on your file assets and identify files to archive, based on size, type, age, owner and more. File meta information is used to build automated file migration policies that move files to S3-compliance object storage, on premises or cloud-based. For large workloads, comprising hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data, file movement policies can be implemented programmatically using the StorageX RESTful API.
We not in the “archive” business. We do not market an archive application with indexing, legal holds, case management, etc.; that is not our business. Rather, we convert your files to object format and we provide a file movement engine capable of moving millions of files to the location you select. Files remain in native S3-compatible format, so you can always access your files directly using a S3-compatible API or S3-compatible browser. You never pay to access your files.
What is the true cost of file archival?
Archive vendors sell applications for moving files to Amazon S3 cloud storage or its equivalent. You get an AWS account which you pay for. Not a bad deal considering “cold” blob storage costs as little as one cent per GB per month. Archive vendors add approximately ten cents per GB per month for the archive application license and maintenance.
The Data Dynamics approach is different. You pay us to move your files to S3 and you pay for the S3 storage. And that’s it. That is a cost savings of $120,000 for 10TB of file archiving for ten years.
Do you have silos of aging unstructured data that needs archiving to new low-cost object storage? If so, call us to learn why 24 of the top Fortune 100 rely on StorageX for intelligent file management.