Actifio With Web-Scale Copy Data Virtualization Solution

Actifio, Inc. announced the availability of Actifio Global Manager (AGM), a web-scale data virtualization solution delivering instant access and simple management of application data for business resiliency and test data management across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

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Over the last six years, the company’s copy data virtualization platform has been deployed in many of the world’s largest and most complex enterprise IT organizations and MSPs. It has scaled up to thousands of application instances associated with petabytes of data deployed across private data centers, and hybrid or public cloud environments including Amazon AWS. After an early access program, the company has released AGM for availability for these web-scale environments, delivering firm’s trademark capabilities of instant application data access, for even very large database instances, all driven by SLAs extending across the full lifecycle of data from production to retirement.

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AGM delivers the following key capabilities:

• Scale up from one to multiple instances of company quickly and easily, managing thousands of applications, petabytes of data, independent of hardware infrastructure or physical location. AGM can manage application data lifecycle across private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• Deliver standardized SLAs and security models across the enterprise. Ensure that application data is consistently managed by the same SLAs, and users have consistent rights to access only the relevant data, independent of location or organization

• Reduce capital and operational expenses for MSPs with a secure multi-tenant, scale-out architecture, which enables operations teams to centrally administer, manage, monitor multiple tenants located anywhere in customer data centers, in MSP’s data centers, or in Amazon AWS public cloud.

• Automatic load balancing by distributing application workloads for data protection among a pool of company’s appliances, which simplifies capacity management in fast growing web-scale environments.

• Simplified capacity management with ‘one-click’ migration of applications between firm’s appliances, similar to VMware VMotion.

• Easy integration by users and MSPs into portals and other custom software via a single, central entry-point and a RESTful API enabling integration of an entire data virtualization environment with users’ business processes and software-defined data center.

• Next-generation visualization with a HTML5 based interface to display timeline-based views of SLAs, backup, replication and other events and alerts from across an enterprise.

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“We’ve grown rapidly with Actifio, not only adding dozens of new clients to our cloud backup, DR and DevOps services, but also growing our footprint and MRR with existing customers by providing net new services,” said Jeremy Wolfram, director, development, Net3 Technologies, Inc. (cloud services provider). “After doing extensive validation testing of Actifio Global Manager and its RESTful API this year, we are building it into our automation platform, so we can more easily scale and manage the data infrastructure for our growing base of Actifio clients.“

David Chang, SVP, solutions development, Actifio, said: “Actifio Global Manager was designed for the rapidly growing footprint of Actifio solutions in user’s environments. More of our users have scaled to multi-site, multi-appliance environments and have begun to use public cloud infrastructure like Amazon AWS as a seamless part of their datacenter. AGM delivers unprecedented simplicity of management for these web-scale users. Application data virtualization requires a unique scale-out technology that is all about Applications, Data and SLA’s, completely independent of hardware infrastructure and location. Users need to be able to instantly access data and applications from anywhere, be able to migrate, load balance and manage the applications and data, from a single interface. We worked closely with over a hundred of our early access program partners for over two years to deliver a solution that will delight our users. We are incredibly proud of this work, and thrilled with the response we’re already getting from users.“

“There has been significant work on scaling out hardware platforms in the last few years. When it comes to virtualization, though, scale-out technology is all about software,” said Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO, Actifio. “Application data virtualization at web-scale is an order of magnitude more complex problem to address. Actifio Global Manager unshackles the infrastructure dependency and makes it faster and easier for our largest customers and service provider partners to access and manage their data at global web-scale. That’s the real power of AGM, and the power of Actifio.“

AGM is available for purchase.