Storiant Enables Data Center Service Providers to Offer Amazon-Like Cold Storage Within 90 Days

Storiant (formerly SageCloud) announced Cold Snap, a program that lets data center service providers offer cold storage services in 90 days.

Recent research found that nearly half (47%) of CIOs pay between $.21 and $.50 per gigabyte per month for on-premises storage of cold data – the less frequently accessed data that makes 85% of all stored information. The company makes it possible to offer a service-based alternative at a fraction of the cost.

“Cold storage is hot right now because companies see Amazon offering its public Glacier service for pennies per gigabyte per month,” said Yaron Naor, VP of business development, Storiant. “Data center service providers recognize the need to offer a private cloud alternative to remain competitive, and the Cold Snap program is the answer. Cold storage is the ideal complement to primary storage services, because it is a long-term solution that serves customers year after year.“

Service providers can:

• Launch cold storage services within 90 days, with data retrieval time ins/minutes compared to hours/days with Amazon Glacier

• Lower storage costs to $.01/GB/month

• Take advantage of:

  • Special pricing available through September 30, 2014, with available payment terms

  • A dedicated support representative to accelerate implementation

  • ‘Drop in’ hardware available through third parties (Storiant-certified bill of materials)

How Storiant works
Storiant software is the first storage solution designed specifically for storing cold data on disk.

It features:

• Object storage for structured and unstructured data

• Exabyte scalability

• Management of low-cost commodity drives, including new shingled magnetic recording disks

• Fast data throughput for migration and big data analytics

• Power down capability that uses 75% less power, plus doubles disk life

• Once-per-year maintenance via sparing

• Eighteen nines of reliability with two copies, plus immutability for compliance

• Integration via cloud-ready REST interface and gateways

• Target markets and uses

The program is for providers of IaaS, such as hosting and co-location data centers. It is suited for companies managing greater than one petabyte of data, and providing services for long-term storage, backup, and DR.