Arise Virtual Solutions Deploying Actifio Sky

Actifio, Inc announced that Arise Virtual Solutions Inc., a provider of virtual, work-at-home business process outsourcing (BPO) and crowdsourcing solutions, has deployed Actifio Sky to ensure data accessibility, and business resiliency across their distributed organization’s many locations.

An existing customer of Actifio’s CDS solution within its main datacenter, Arise implemented Sky at several branch office data centers including Miramar, FL and Edinburgh, Scotland for data consolidation and protection.

After replacing multiple local backup products in its offices with Sky, Arise is able to restore application services for branch office data centers in less than 90 minutes. Sky captures SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint and other data in several VMs, deduplicates and backups the data and replicates it back to the Actifio CDS system in the central Arise datacenter.

“Arise Virtual Solutions’ core innovation is in our scalable virtual workforce platform, and that drives the value we deliver to our customers,” said Arise CIO Martin Ingram. “To remain productive for our clients, we need IT services that are highly resilient and efficient, no matter where the IT infrastructure and data are located. Actifio Sky lets us extend our core Actifio capabilities to manage and protect the critical data for our customers across multiple locations from one central repository. This has helped reduce our administration time, letting our team focus more of its time on service delivery and development.“

Announced in May, Sky is  built on the company’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology that extends the power of copy data virtualization from the data center to edge of the enterprise and into the cloud. It offers deployment flexibility and range, enabling data management wherever the enterprise data is located to improve data protection, governance and analytics. Sky is offered first for ROBOs and for cloud deployments for businesses looking to shift enterprise workloads into the cloud. Together with Actifio’s CDS data center appliance, Sky eliminates barriers to data mobility between the edge to the core, enabling transformational data management velocity and scale across the enterprise.

“Actifio Sky demonstrates the strength of our underlying technology and brings it to a new audience of customers who want to tap the power of copy data virtualization in whatever form is most useful – whether that’s a fully-integrated hardware system, a virtual appliance or a cloud-based service that’s available on demand and accessible through any device,” said Actifio founder and CEO Ash Ashutosh. “This vision is becoming reality through companies like Arise who are deploying Actifio flexibly to meet their business needs.“