Storiant System for Private Cold Storage on Exabyte Scale for $.01/GB/Mo.

Storiant (formerly SageCloud), provider of cold storage software, announced a software that enables security-conscious companies to reduce the cost of retaining data by 90%.

As companies seek competitive advantage from big data, they are challenged by both the cost to retain millions of gigabytes of data indefinitely and the new types of data for which traditional storage systems were not designed.

Inspired by the way Amazon and Facebook solved these challenges with proprietary data centers built for low cost and scalability, Storiant gives companies access to a secure, private storage solution that rivals public cloud storage pricing and scalability. The solution makes it possible to securely store data on an exabyte scale for under $.01 per gigabyte per month.

Recent research found that nearly half (47%) of CIOs pay between $.21 and $.50 per gigabyte per month to store cold data – the less frequently accessed data that makes up 85% of all stored information. At the same time, nearly 40% (37%) are storing between 500TB and 1PB. The research reflects that many businesses cannot afford to retain data at the new volume, limiting big data opportunities and forcing many to discard valuable content to control costs.

“With the strategic value of data increasing every day, the race is on for businesses to store everything to gain a competitive edge,” said Jeff Flowers, co-founder and CEO, Storiant. “But that’s not possible with the high cost of the traditional storage model. Given this reality, we are confident that the time is right for a new software-based model. That’s why we built a new generation of storage that provides security-conscious companies the opportunity to save all of their data long term while keeping it accessible for business analytics – all at public cloud storage prices. We’re proud to make that innovation available today.“

Exponential data growth and changing data types require new solution
Storiant’s object storage software can scale to exabytes and readily accommodate unstructured data such as photo, video, and audio data from mobile devices, social media, satellites, barcodes and scientific equipment. With 60% of CIOs citing that data growth will outpace their company’s storage solution within 12 months and the increase in unstructured data, businesses need to adapt to a shift in both the amount and type of data stored. Storiant makes it possible, whether companies operate internal data centers or take advantage of data center service providers.

“As a service provider, being able to offer enterprise customers a variety of storage solutions for a diverse range of needs is essential,” said Patrick Gilmore, CTO, Markley Group. “Based on what we are hearing from customers with massive amounts of data, there is a large and growing demand for tier 3 storage solutions. We tested Storiant against demanding requirements, and found its low cost, reliability, and multi-petabyte scale to be the perfect fit. The addition of Storiant storage gives Markley the comprehensive service portfolio that our customers expect, and we look forward to delivering it.“

How it works
Storiant is a disk-based storage solution designed specifically for cold (tier 3) data:

Object storage for structured and unstructured data
Exabyte scalability
Software on commodity hardware
Runs on low-cost commodity drives including new shingled magnetic recording disks
Fast data throughput for migration and big data analytics
Power down capability uses 75% less power, plus doubles disk life
Once-per-year maintenance via sparing and redundancy reduces support costs
Eighteen nines of reliability with two copies, plus immutability for compliance
Easy integration via cloud-ready REST interface and gateways

Target markets
Storiant is for customers in need of a secure, low-cost storage solution for big data analytics and long-term retention. Primary target markets include financial services, data center services, government, media, and healthcare/pharmaceuticals.

The software may be perpetually licensed directly from Storiant, or as part of an integrated hardware and software solution from partners including Avnet/Rorke Global Solutions.

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