Arkivum to Include Free Gateway Hardware Appliances

Arkivum Limited, a digital archiving specialist, announced a free on-site gateway hardware appliance for all levels of its A-Stor data archiving service.

The gateway appliance acts as a NAS and offers between 1TB and 30TB of local cache storage depending on the amount of data to be archived.
 
This takes effect immediately and will run until 31st December 2012, allowing subscribers to store archive data from 8p (GBP 0.08) per GB per month.
 
Jim Cook, CEO Arkivum said: "Organisations are struggling to contain and manage data growth and compliance. Using A-Stor we offer a simple, scalable and secure solution to solve storage issues. The move to include a free NAS device within our subscription will allow our customers to implement our solution at an extremely attractive price point."
 
A-Stor digital archiving service is providing insurance backed 100% data integrity guarantee; this is achieved by maintaining three copies at all times, two in the company’s data centres and one held offline, locked away in a third party escrow service.
 
It also delivers cost savings to businesses and is energy efficient. It reduces customers’ power consumption and heat generation to offer a carbon footprint typically one tenth of a typical in-house solution.