Archive Cloud-Native From Smarsh for Enterprises

Smarsh, Inc. helping customers get ahead – and stay ahead – of the risk within their electronic communications, announced that its Enterprise Archive cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space.

The cloud-native architecture of Enterprise Archive creates a secure and scalable platform across multiple cloud infrastructures (public and/or private) to meet the evolving needs of today’s global enterprises. Organizations can choose to deploy archiving, supervision and e-discovery services on the infrastructures that align with their corporate cloud strategies.

“Global enterprises are making strategic decisions to future-proof their data platforms,” said Greg Vesper, chief product officer, Smarsh. “Do you continue investing in highly constrained proprietary infrastructures designed for yesterday’s workloads, or do you leverage cloud-scale, cloud-durability, and geo-redundant storage from the world’s leading cloud providers? With Smarsh, organizations have the control and flexibility to deploy services where they want them.“

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Harnessing power of cloud-native architecture and multi-cloud deployability
Deploying Enterprise Archive enables customers to future-proof and protect their business in several areas:

• Class-security. The data security practices, combined with the continuous security investments of the world’s leading providers, enable enterprises to strengthen their security postures across areas such as: data immutability, intrusion detection, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation, multi-level data encryption and key management, continuous monitoring and audit logging, and identity and access control.

• Triple-active data durability. Enterprise Archive runs simultaneously in multiple data centers distributed across three availability zones with elastic capacity, creating HA and durability. This triple-active deployment eliminates the cost and complexity of a traditional DR site, while reducing RTOs and RPOs to zero.

• Geographic flexibility. Multinational customers that need to store data and run services in multiple geographic regions to meet regulatory or jurisdictional requirements are no longer limited by historical providers’ data center locations. Rather, they have the flexibility to deploy services worldwide in the data centers operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The AWS Cloud, for instance, spans 69 availability zones within 22 geographic regions around the world, with announced plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more regions.

  In The Forrester Wave: Information Archiving Cloud Providers, Q1 2019 report ($2,495), in which the company was cited as a leader, Forrester noted: “Vendors that are entirely dependent on their own data centers may be caught short if clients demand in-region storage and processing, while vendors that partner with large public cloud providers can react more nimbly to regional demands.“

• Limitless scale and performance. Leveraging public cloud infrastructure auto scaling and elastic load balancing capabilities, customers can modulate the services and storage consumed based on demand. Customers can add compute and storage resources when needed – as data volume changes – resulting in unmatched ingestion, search and export speeds.

• Platform extensibility. With available application program interfaces (APIs) for content ingestion, administration and data enrichment, Enterprise Archive enables customers to enhance the value of the data in their archive while maintaining strict security and access requirements.

Customers can choose to deploy Enterprise Archive through Amazon Web Services (AWS), with support for Microsoft Azure coming in early 2020 and Google Cloud Platform to follow.

The firm provides multiple Connected Archive offerings to meet customers’ specific needs.