Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option for Databases

Informatica Corporation, provider of enterprise data integration software, announced the launch of Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option.

The industry’s first Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering to archive database and enterprise application data to the cloud in a cost-effective and secure manner:

• Supports almost all structured data including relational databases, enterprise applications and data warehouses.
• Removes need for specialized database skills through standard file system management of archives.
• Simplifies the entire cycle of archiving data, whether stored in the cloud or on-premise.
• Maintains data security and data integrity through end-to-end encryption and application-specific business rules which enables easy restoration of archived data.
• Provides an optimized data access service on Amazon EC2 in order to query and retrieve data that has been archived to Amazon S3.
• Archived data remains fully accessible to users via standard SQL querying, reporting and discovery tools.
• Automatically distributes processing load to accommodate spikes in utilization when reporting requirements grow, during eDiscovery or compliance audits.

"Companies are rethinking their approach to data retention as their data volumes continue to grow exponentially and they have to hold onto that data for long periods of time," said Adam Wilson, general manager, ILM, Informatica. "Informatica’s Data Archive Cloud Store Option provides the ideal approach to cost effectively maintain these large, infrequently accessed data volumes."

"Organizations today are looking to find ways to more cost-effectively and securely archive their data, while maintaining easy access," said Simon Robinson, Research Director for Storage at the 451 Group. "With the launch of Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option Informatica is offering a new service that enables customers to simply and efficiently leverage pooled compute and storage resources in the cloud to store and access inactive data from their enterprise applications and databases. Storing archived data in the cloud is well suited to the elasticity of cloud services, given the dynamic nature of the data access and the promise of cost-efficiencies gained through Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deployments."

"Cloud storage presents an attractive option for dealing with the rising volume of enterprise data, but CIOs are right to demand high-performance, easy-to-use, cost-effective cloud storage solutions that ensure the data is readily accessible to business users," said Senad Hadzic, CIO, KaMin Performance Minerals. "Informatica’s new Data Archive Cloud Store Option provides IT with the enterprise-grade solution requisite for making cloud storage a key part of an organization’s total data storage ecosystem."

Pricing and Availability
Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option can be deployed on any public or private cloud infrastructure. Initially it will be available at the end of Q1 on Amazon EC2 and S3. Future versions will support deployment on other IaaS providers. Pricing for the Data Archive Cloud Store Option will start at $1 per gigabyte and includes connectivity to the cloud storage provider, compression and encryption services, storage in the cloud and access to the data on an on-going basis for query, reporting, and restoration.