Aparavi Active Archive and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Interoperable

Aparavi Software Corporation certified Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage with its’s Active Archive platform, validating joint customers can achieve effective long-term data retention.

Backblaze has also passed a set of test cases necessary to fulfill the requirements for the Aparavi Certified Cloud Destinations Program and achieve Aparavi Certified status.

Active Archive gives B2 users fine-grained control and the ability to discover, index, classify, and prune unstructured data while ensuring long term retention. Because Aparavi gives its customers the ability to use the strategic or cost-effective cloud storage for their needs, to use multiple clouds, and to switch cloud vendors at any time, this interoperability guarantee ensures archived files can be moved into or out of B2 without requiring data to be brought on-premises first.

“Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is both reliable and extremely price-competitive with a pricing model that is completely predictable. They offer an attractive alternative to other leading cloud storage vendors,” said Jonathan Calmes, VP of business development, Aparavi. “Our Active Archive platform enables the easy movement to B2 Cloud Storage, and together offer a compelling storage and data management solution for enterprises.“

“For over 12 years, Backblaze has earned customer trust by being open and transparent. We appreciate Aparavi’s similar approach in providing customers the power to manage and move their data across leading storage clouds,” said Nilay Patel, VP of product and sales, Backblaze. “By focusing on empowering customer choice, Aparavi’s Active Archive Platform enables customers to make choices based on customer needs, not complicated infrastructure constraints.“

Backblaze has been a provider for cloud storage for over 12 years. Customers in more than 150 countries currently store more than 750PB of data in Backblaze’s scalable, high-density storage architecture. B2 Cloud Storage is a competitive offering to Amazon’s S3, but at ¼ of the price. B2’s durability is a leading 11 nines with industry standard SLAs governing availability.

Active Archive is a multi-cloud data management solution designed for unstructured data. It indexes, classifies, retains, and archives unstructured data either on-premises or in any cloud. Cloud freedom, combined with a technology to reduce data up to 75%, delivers cost savings, agility, and independence. Data is stored in an open-source, published Open Data Format to guard against vendor lock-in and ensure data access forever, while data classification and tagging, along with full-content search, provides fine-grained control and enables regulatory and internal compliance. The SaaS model allows fast integration along with best TCO.

Aparavi has certified a growing list of cloud storage services in a multi-step validation process to ensure users have flexibility in choosing public and private cloud providers. Certified Cloud Partners also include Wasabi, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.