Availability StorCycle Storage Management Software From Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic Corporation announced availability of StorCycle, a storage management software solution designed for data-driven organizations needing a storage lifecycle management workflow.

Typically, around 80% of an organization’s data is inactive, but is kept on an expensive primary storage tier, taking up valuable storage capacity and increasing storage costs. StorCycle provides a way for organizations to identify and move this inactive data to lower-cost storage platforms while making the data easily accessible to users.

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StorCycle scans primary storage for inactive files and migrates them to a lower cost tier of storage, called the Perpetual Tier, which can include any combination of cloud storage, object storage disk, NAS and tape, ensuring the data is protected. This reduces the amount of data on expensive primary storage, shrinking backup and recovery windows, reducing the need for additional primary storage, and increasing overall performance.

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In addition, StorCycle’s Project Archive feature enables users to tag and move entire project data sets to a perpetual storage tier. The completed project can be accessed by an organization when needed, all while being preserved on less costly storage for as long as required.

StorCycle is a storage management software that automatically identifies and migrates data based on age, size or other user-defined policies. In addition, users can manually choose project-based directories to archive. Designed for data-intensive environments, it delivers affordable long-term protection and access for data that is no longer active, but deemed indispensable to an organization.

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Resources:
StorCycle WP by industry analyst Fred Moore (registration required)
StorCycle DS    
StorCycle videos