PoINT Storage Manager With File Tiering Supports Object Storage

The new PoINT Storage Manager version of the German company PoINT Software & Systems GmbH allows a homogenous integration of object-based storage systems from different manufacturers into existing infrastructures.

Besides support of EMC Corp.‘s and NetApp, Inc.‘s cloud products also connectors for the standard interfaces S3 and CDMI will be provided shortly. Thus companies can take advantage of object storage without any modification at the application level. Advantages are especially scalability and consistent performance.
 
Due to economic reasons companies are forced to use their storage resources efficiently. Storing all generated and incoming data on cost-intensive primary storage is not only very expensive but threatens also the company’s existence – this happens if the data to be archived are not protected against modification and deletion. The management is responsible for the data security and is personally liable.
 
The available file tiering solutions like PoINT Storage Manager can solve this problem. By these solutions inactive data is migrated from the performance to the capacity or archive tier in an automated manner. Before a tiering concept can be implemented the target storage and the storage technologies most suitable for the specific requirements have to be defined. Furthermore it has to be decided what storage technology shall be used in a specific tier. Especially for the migration of a high data volume it is advantageous to use object based storage.

Generally speaking object storage is scalable and offers a consistent performance even if a big number of stored objects need to be handled. PoINT Storage Manager utilizes this property and supports respectively supplements the manufacturer’s specific functionality for protecting stored data against modification and taking care of retention periods.

As PoINT Storage Manager is a hardware independent software solution companies are flexible in their choice of a storage manufacturer. In addition it provides a migration functionality by which data can be moved from one storage system to the other without interruption.