Data Lifecycle Management

Enterprise Challenges

• Managing and storing increasing amounts of data.
• Regulatory and business requirements necessitate the retention of data for longer periods of time.
• It is difficult to ascertain the business value of data and match it to the appropriate class of storage.
• The utility of data often changes over time, but the infrastructure used to store it does not.
• It is manually intensive and disruptive to manage the data lifecycle across heterogeneous file storage devices. 

The Acopia Solution

The Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX) family allows the enterprise to implement business-driven data management policies that dynamically match different types of data to the appropriate class of storage. Acopia's switches not only place data on the appropriate class of storage, but also manage this relationship over time so the enterprise can automatically migrate data between storage classes according to business-driven policies.

Due to its location in the network, purpose-built hardware and software architecture, an ARX is able to dynamically classify file data based on type, age, and frequency of access. It also supports the classification of different types of storage device. This intelligence can be used to craft powerful business-driven policies that automate the placement and movement of data throughout the enterprise in the most effective way possible in a manner that is transparent to users.

Benefits of the Acopia Solution

• Dramatically reduces the overall cost of the file storage infrastructure by intelligently matching the value of data to the appropriate classes of storage.
• Leverages existing heterogeneous file storage resources as well as new, lower-cost storage alternatives as part of a comprehensive data lifecycle management strategy.
• Offers automated migration that reduces IT operational costs and is non-disruptive to users and applications.