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Cost-Effective Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation

ONLINE – NEARLINE – ARCHIVE

Data is exploding across the digital universe faster than ever before. While new information may need to be preserved for 2 or 20 years, data always needs to be accessible and accurate.

StrongBox solves data storage and protection challenges at a low cost while keeping your files fully accessible and simplifying long-term preservation.

StrongBox Key Benefits:

• Reduces TCO and controls storage costs
• Provides an always-online file system as an easy-to-use NAS solution
• Ensures the long-term protection of business-critical data
• Delivers tunable performance for data accessibility
• Closes the gap between data growth and budget availability

StrongBox is a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance architected to uniquely combine the performance of disk with the economics of tape in a simple, easy-to-deploy solution. StrongBox is designed to providing a cost-effective, long-term data protection for fixed content and unstructured data. Empowering organizations to control storage costs and scale into petabytes, without sacrificing data availability.

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By pairing a flexible, policy-driven disk cache with Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology, StrongBox empowers you to control storage costs without sacrificing data availability.

The StrongBox® DataManager is a complementary software enhancement to the StrongBox archive appliance that provides transparent file movement (migration or copying) from primary storage systems, such as NetApp, Linux, Windows, Novell, and other CIFS/NFS file servers, into the StrongBox archive.

Datasheet     LTFS     Layout   DataManager

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StrongBox delivers always-online storage with the performance of disk and the economics of tape.

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Access data online, all the time

When you need access to your data, you don’t want to wait. StrongBox provides an always online file system that supports multiple, simultaneous requests.

Data is never offline and users have a persistent view of all files in the archive, improving efficiency and maximizing the IT investment.

Access is as simple as point and click from a standard file system.

With unique performance tuning, you can customize data availability to meet specific business needs.

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Business Use Cases for the StrongBox Solution

Cost-effective long-term preservation

The explosion of digital information puts ever-increasing pressure on IT teams to do more with less. In a world where “keep everything, forever” is the mantra of many, new archiving and protection strategies that deliver lower costs and simpler management become imperative.

StrongBox provides a new way to leverage cost-effective LTFS tape media as a fully accessible, online storage solution.

Discover the opportunities to:

• Reduce TCO
• Simplify long-term retention and management
• Protect data with long-term reliability
• Access data seamlessly from a shared NAS

Alleviate backup using StrongBox

Up to 90 percent of enterprise data isn’t accessed more than once, but still needs to be stored and protected long term. Protection typically involves backing up data to meet disaster recovery needs. But, inactive data that remains on primary storage media devours costly network, computing and power resources, while bogging down backup processes and straining the overall infrastructure.

Now you can simplify your backup process by moving fixed content into a StrongBox. StrongBox data is automatically protected, meaning that it doesn’t need to be backed up.

• Remove 50-80% of data from your backup cycles
• Protect data automatically
• Maintain access to data, unlike traditional offline backup copies
• Meet backup window and SLAs

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As primary storage resources, such as disk based NAS, teem with content, businesses need a low-cost solution for scalable data storage and long-term preservation.

The Crossroads StrongBox provides the most cost-effective, long-term storage solution for this unstructured, fixed content.
How can IT administrators seamlessly move data from costly primary storage into the StrongBox archive?
The Solution: DataManager Datasheet

The StrongBox® DataManager is a complementary software enhancement to the StrongBox archive appliance that provides transparent file movement (migration or copying) from primary storage systems, such as NetApp, Linux, Windows, Novell, and other CIFS/NFS file servers, into the StrongBox archive.
Users gain fluid data movement, all from a single, integrated solution. You can centralize data control while the StrongBox DataManager intelligently manages data movement or copying of files between storage tiers. StrongBox DataManager includes a tool that can automatically identify inactive files on primary sources, enabling streamlined movement to the archive. By reducing the amount of data on primary storage, you can dramatically improve your total cost of storage ownership (TCO).

Simple file management that scales for business growth
The StrongBox DataManager allows you to simplify file movement with automated policies based on file information such as maturity, last access date, file size, and more. Migrations can be scheduled outside of high network traffic times in order to optimize performance across the datacenter, and there is no impact on other applications or your end user community. StrongBox DataManager provides a pointto-point streaming capability across storage devices. Data is moved directly to the StrongBox storage destination, and can be retrieved based on automated policies or directly from the StrongBox user interface. With no additional indexes or databases, all stub files are kept on the StrongBox, ensuring that DataManager can always restore stubs and recover a file from storage sources or from the StrongBox as an archive destination.

Integrated data protection
When you leverage StrongBox DataManager to move your fixed content and unstructured data into StrongBox, the data is effectively removed from your backup processes, freeing up network resources and decreasing backup volumes. Your data is always secure, providing confidence in the reliability of your storage systems.

The Bottom Line
StrongBox DataManager provides simple, scalable and protected data management from primary storage into theStrongBox LTFS-based archive. Significant cost savings, transparent data management and integrated protection guarantee the availability and reliability of your data for its entire lifecycle. StrongBox is the only completely integrated, seamless solution for implementing an archive as a standalone solution or with existing storage

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