Seven10 Joins HP Helion Ready Program

Seven10 Storage Software, developer of data migration and cloud-based Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) software, announced that its Storfirst software products are tested, certified, and supported for HP Helion OpenStack as part of the HP Helion Ready Program for solution partners.

The program offers a catalog of ISV and SaaS solutions certified to run on HP Helion OpenStack and/or Helion Development Platform across industry workloads suitable for use in a variety of environments, including public, private, virtual private, managed, and hybrid clouds. HP publishes the list of all HP Helion Ready applications via a catalog on their website. As part of the certification, Seven 10 has earned the ‘HP Helion Ready’ badge, which signifies that Storfirst software can be deployed by customers with HP Helion OpenStack and Helion Content Depot.

“As enterprises continue to evolve from traditional storage systems to cloud or hybrid-cloud storage, CIOs are looking for a trusted, secure and easier way to migrate their critical unstructured data while gaining immediate access to new storage infrastructure” said Bobby Moulton, president and CEO, Seven10. “Seven10 recognizes the burden to stay current with the latest integrations in object and cloud storage technologies. We understand these challenges and are providing customers an all-in-one solution that migrates legacy data and manages new investments in any storage technology, without creating budget shock.“

“As part of the HP Helion Ready Program, Seven10 and HP will have a unique opportunity to ensure that Seven10’s technology is tested and certified with HP Helion OpenStack,” said Steve Dietch, VP, cloud go to market, HP. “This will allow customers to deploy on HP Helion OpenStack seamlessly and reinforces HP and the Helion community’s commitment to the growing ecosystem.“

Storfirst software transitions unstructured data from the widest range of legacy storage environments, including EMC Centera, NetApp StorageGrid, HP MAS, IBM GMAS, Oracle SAMFS – as well as any existing NAS platform, cloud gateway or file system. They solution offeris automated data migration plus a standard SMB/CIFS or NFS file system layer for access into any storage platform, including HP Helion OpenStack and Helion Content Depot. This later is an integrated object storage solution based on Helion OpenStack and industry HP ProLiant servers.

Storfirst offers HP users the following added benefits:

• Multiple layers of security: Encryption, file-locking, retention, multi-platform replication, portability, hashing, self-audits, tiering and write-once.
• Flexibility: With native support of block and file-based disk, object, CAS, and even tape/VTL, Storfirst’s policy-based tiering delivers true storage convergence for HP Helion users.
• Migrations: Seven10 helps companies retire and/or refresh their current storage platform by supplying secure data migrations that deliver uninterrupted access and guarantee against data loss.