Actifio Rolls Out Protection and Availability Storage 5.0

Actifio, Inc. launched PAS 5.0, a platform upgrade that extends the company’s signature capability – the ability to recover any application instantly for up to 90% less TCO – to large scale enterprises and cloud service providers.

This new version of its platform – a virtualized storage solution with more than 100 users worldwide – addresses more deployment scenarios by delivering new cloud-based services including multi-tenancy, networking optimization and reporting capabilities. It also offers improved workflow to accelerate application development lifecycles, now including Oracle, with efficient self-service database cloning to lower storage costs across large enterprises.
 
PAS is a purpose-built system optimized for the real driver of today’s data storage explosion: copy data. By focusing on smarter and efficient copy data management – where it is not unusual for a business to maintain 13-120 redundant copies of production data – the company provides faster recovery and reliable data protection for up to 90% less cost than traditional backup and recovery point tools.
 
"The copy data explosion is creating significant problems for the enterprise and the reason is that a whole slew of traditional, expensive and siloed data backup and recovery applications can’t instantly find, manage and protect ever-increasing data assets," Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO of Actifio. "With PAS 5.0, enterprises can create and maintain a single copy of everything in their production environment, eliminating the need for multiple redundant copies. It also recovers data within seconds, which is more important than ever in mission-critical environments."
 
Through simplification of the copy data management problem, organizations are freed to reinvest dollars often counted in the millions of annually recurring expenses into more strategic IT initiatives driving growth and innovation. PAS users – including Boston University Medical Campus; Audax Group; NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable company; City of South Portland; and Jones & Bartlett Learning – are realizing such savings and putting those resources to better use inside their own organizations.
 
"Finding ways to extend our current IT investments into new areas can make a good technology decision a great technology decision," said Erik Dubovik, VP of IT, Audax Group. "This is exactly the case with PAS 5.0 because it lets me simplify copy data management for more of our environment in addition to lowering test and development storage costs by 95%."
 
"Our work in the fight against disease is essential but it generates unwieldy ‘Big Data’ that’s hard to store, share and protect using conventional tools," said Dr. John Meyers, assistant professor of medicine and director of technology for the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. "PAS 5.0 will let us recover anything, physical or virtual, across our entire data center – instantly – with a single solution with 80% less dedicated backup storage. For us, that will save time, money and trouble – and allow us to focus on the advancement of science."
 
This new release coincides with the accelerating worldwide adoption of PAS, which has been installed by hundreds of customers and sold by more than 120 VARs worldwide. It has enabled the company to double revenues for seven consecutive quarters and expand in regions across Europe, AsiaPac and the Middle East. Actifio was recently chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2012.
 
The PAS 5.0 supports larger deployments and more diverse enterprises while accelerating the test and development process in Oracle environments.

Actifio has bolstered the scalability and performance
of PAS 5.0 with these new features:

• 200% dedupe capacity increase
• 2x increase in throughput
• 10x bandwidth increase with 10GbE
• 75% network bandwidth savings with DeDup Async replication
• Faster on-boarding of remote applications via portable storage
• Actifio Enterprise Manager – a software capability that simple management of large scale PAS deployments

PAS 5.0 gives developers and IT teams copies of production data within minutes to hasten the arduous testing process. Within Oracle Test and Development environments, it eliminates more than 95% of storage costs by creating multiple copies at a fraction of footprint. Actifio now enables immediate self-service database cloning – taking less than 15 minutes to clone a five terabyte database when it previously took several days using legacy approaches.
 
For cloud service providers, PAS 5.0 offers public and private cloud data management services including backup, remote backup, and test and development. It also provides several in-demand features including DeDup Async, secure multi-tenancy and the Actifio Enterprise Reporter.
 
PAS now supports a variety of environments – including file system data on Windows and Linux including DAS, NAS and SAN. It provides protection and availability for heterogeneous networked and direct-attached server environments, supporting a range of in-band, out-of-band, physical, VMware, structured and unstructured environments.
 
PAS 5.0 will be available the week of June 18.