According to leading storage analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), data stored and accessed directly as files now represents more than 60 percent of all data managed by companies today. As the amount of file servers and file-based data continues to grow across data centers, IT managers face new challenges in meeting the demands of storage availability, performance, and cost.
The development of newer and more complex operating systems, file systems, and large-scale, global applications has also elevated the management of these files to a much higher level of importance within today's IT organizations.
In turn, the rapid growth in the number of these files has caused a wide range of additional challenges in traditional data management operations, such as storage consolidation, compliance, technology upgrades, and data recovery. These challenges include ongoing application availability, ensuring new architectures can be deployed without hardware or software limitations, and avoiding vendor "lock-in."
Block-oriented solutions now deployed in many companies further complicate this problem - files have a business context which is lost at the block level. Also, many block-level solutions "trap" data in their system in that the hardware block-level storage device must be used as an I/O point for data access.
Intivity Active Data Management
Intivity Active Data Management addresses these challenges with file-based, policy-based data management solutions for distributed environments. Intivity's solutions allow enterprises to create storage architectures with:
- Better application availability
- Less disruption to IT operations
- Reduced risk to technology change through our vendor-independent approach
Intivity's file-based approach means that users can apply policies to individual files, according to the business context of the data.
Intivity provides an "open tier" solution where data is available as a file systems at each stage in the data migration, replication, or management process. Other solutions, notably virualization and block-oriented approaches, must reconstitute data blocks into files and therefore only allow access at end points in their systems.
Our technology is server-based and vendor-independent. We free you from "lock-in" caused by hardware and software vendors' proprietary systems. And although Intivity yields on-going benefits through our Active Data Management software, it can also be removed after data migration or replication operations with no effect on data availability.
Find out more about Intivity Active Data Management solutions - please contact us.