Storage Cloud for the Archival Market by Vaultscape

Vaultscape, Inc. unveiled a unique storage service that is lower then the cost of tape, with latencies closer to disk, all in a centralized cloud implementation that requires no capital expenditures and provides security compliance rivaling the most protected institutional data centers.

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Vaultscape is a next-generation storage cloud company founded by a group of storage industry veterans who know first-hand the pain associated with keeping a large archive. "I have yet to meet a CIO who is happy using tape," said Jeff Cooke, CEO of Vaultscape, Inc. "However, until today, tape replacement solutions have been too expensive and have failed to solve the problem of having an off-site copy of your data. Vaultscape’s storage cloud finally offers CIOs a real chance to eliminate the use of tape for archival purposes."

Vaultscape’s storage cloud is a highly secure, highly reliable storage service that is connected to via a simple REST-based API. This allows it to be made compatible with virtually any backup or archival software that is being used by enterprises around the world.

According to Gartner Principal Analyst Adam Couture, "In light of the current economic situation enterprises are clamoring to reduce their storage expenses. Cloud storage service providers can help many of them trim budgets by delivering a low cost storage tier for certain applications like backup and archiving."

Given its innovative and groundbreaking technology, Vaultscape offers enterprise customers either a 100% reliable dual copy or a 99.9% reliable single copy solution for costs up to 50% lower then tape, with the capacity to scale to multiple petabytes.

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The CTO and co-founder of VaultScape, Christopher Williams, developed early consumer oriented tape storage devices...

We remark also, as scientific advisor and co-architect of Vaultscape file system, the name of Dr. Aloke Guha, who was the co-founder and CTO of Copan Systems, a pioneer in MAID technology. Earlier, he was the CTO and chief architect at StorageTek and Network Systems, where he was instrumental in the development of one of the first enterprise-class SAN switches.

Guha is currently the founder and CTO of AumniData, a company in stealth mode involved in unstructured content analytics. And in this start-up, there is another big name of the storage industry as board adviser, Juan Rodriguez, co-founder of StorageTek, Exabyte and Ecrix.