PoINT Software & Systems and Crossroads in Technology Partnership

PoINT Software & Systems GmbH
and Crossroads Systems GmbH announced
their technology partnership.

The software solution PoINT Storage Manager, by which a tiered storage
architecture can be implemented, now supports also the hybrid storage solution
StrongBox of Crossroads in the archive tier. Thus inactive data, which does not
have to be accessed permanently, can be migrated by policies from the
primary storage to the StrongBox. At any time the data can be accessed through
the performance tier. PoINT Software & Systems plans furthermore to support
the StrongBox also within the capacity tier.

PoINT Storage Manager is a software solution realizing a tiered
storage architecture by a policy-based data management with automated and
transparent file migration and migration between different tiers. Therefore
inactive data – which are generally up to 80% of the total data volume – are
migrated according to policies from the primary storage within the
performance tier to  the cost-effective
secondary storage within the capacity respectively archive tier.

Though PoINT Storage Manager now also supports the StrongBox within the archive
tier and in future also within the capacity tier. As hybrid storage solution
the StrongBox combines the advantages of disk storage with the LTFS tape storage for a long-term
archiving of data in a tiered storage environment.

The data stored in the
StrongBox is protected against modifications from the view of the primary
storage (WORM mode). Special authentication and encryption functions of PoINT
Storage Manager protect the data from unauthorized access. PoINT Storage
Manager provides a transparent access within the file system of the primary
storage to the data archived in the StrongBox. The archive storage migration is
carried out background and thus does not affect the performance of the IT
environment. Furthermore no application changes are necessary.