Markley Group Selecting Storiant

Storiant, Inc. announced that Markley cloud Services, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) division of Markley Group, Inc., New England’s multi-tenant telecommunications and data center service provider, has chosen Storiant software for an 11PB long-term storage solution.

The announcement marks the first time that IaaS providers can store petabyte-scale data in a secure, scalable and reliable private cloud environment – at a price below public cloud storage.

“Markley cloud Services sees the explosion in storage needs firsthand,” said Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group CTO. “Our enterprise customers need a more economical way to retain data, including features like SEC 17a-4(f) compliance, without giving up the HA cloud storage that we provide today. That’s what makes Storiant unique; we can continue to offer our existing tier 1 and tier 2 storage services, supplemented by new, long-term storage services priced close to a penny per GB/month. It’s a huge cost savings for our customers.“

Storiant software addresses the growing need for accessible, low-cost, long-term storage for use cases such as big data analytics (data lake), DR, BC, archive storage and regulatory compliance. It also enables data centers to manage data volumes that are growing exponentially – a trend that makes the economics of traditional storage solutions unsustainable.

Key Storiant features:

Object storage software for managing structured and unstructured data
TCO less than $.01/GB/month
Scales to exabytes
Eighteen nines of reliability with two copies
Immutability for compliance
Multi-tenant
10GB throughput for fast migration and big data analytics
Uses 75% less power plus doubles disk life with power-down capability
Reduces support costs via sparing and redundancy
Open standards integration

“We are seeing a big demand from data center service providers like Markley Group, who want to offer their customers an alternative to the public cloud for long-term storage,” said Jeff Flowers, co-founder and CEO, Storiant. “They are in the midst of a perfect storm – extreme data growth, lower public cloud costs and the increasing regulatory compliance needs of financial services customers. But until now they haven’t been able to compete with public cloud costs and still provide the security, reliability, and compliance that their customers expect. Now they can.“