Spectra Logic Enhances StorCycle Storage Lifecycle Management Software

Spectra Logic Corp. announced several enhancements to its StorCycle Storage Lifecycle Management software.

The software helps organizations solve the challenges of exponential data growth by providing a better understanding of their data, migrating data to free up primary storage, protecting vs. ransomware attacks, and enabling DR copies of data.

These features in StorCycle 3.5 allow tiering and protection of cloud data, provide increased protection vs. ransomware attacks, and boost metadata searchability and accessibility, among other benefits.

The company also announced a free 60-day trial of StorCycle software for IT professionals who want to gain insight into their organizational data to determine storage capacity and cost savings.

“With new cloud mandates and mounting ransomware attacks, it’s more critical than ever for organizations to get visibility into their data and manage that data for its lifetime,” said Jeff Braunstein, director, product management. “Organizations need to know how much data they have, where it is located, how to find it when needed, and where to protect it long-term. StorCycle is built to meet those requirements.“

StorCycle’s features enhance the solution’s inherent benefits which deliver unmatched IT and operational efficiencies through the software’s intelligent identification, migration, access and preservation of data throughout its lifecycle. It scans primary onsite or cloud storage and migrates or copies files that meet policy-based criteria to a lower cost tier of storage, which includes any combination of cloud storage, object storage disk, NAS and object storage tape, while leaving data accessible and useable.

StorCycle features include:

• S3 source storage – In addition to StorCycle’s support for cloud storage targets, the software allows users to migrate or copy S3 cloud data to a BlackPearl object storage device.

• Data encryption – It is available for data migrated by StorCycle. Previously, it was provided in StorCycle via the encryption capabilities of the storage targets themselves. Now, it can also encrypt the data as it is moved or copied to a storage target. This integrated feature provides users with an easy method to protect all migrated data.

• Single HTML links for jobs – This feature allows for a single HTML file link to be left for an entire job/project, rather than for each migrated file, making it easier to access and restore data. With this feature, the structure remains clean and organized on the source.

• Job queue priority control – This feature allows users to prioritize jobs in the queue, giving users greater control over job execution order.

• Linked instances – For organizations with multiple StorCycle installations on the same network, the software can now link to other instances and provide a single search window. This feature makes the search for migrate/store projects easier.

• Restore user: Daily Capacity Limitations – Administrators can set daily restore limits for users to regulate the amount of data returned to primary storage. This ensures that the data returned to primary storage stays beneath a pre-determined threshold to maintain system and performance advantages.

• Custom age filter – Instead of pre-set age ranges for data migration, StorCycle enables users to customize the age range that triggers a migration. For example, a user might set the policy to migrate all data that is 97 days old and older.

• HA on VMs – StorCycle leverages the failover capabilities of hyperconverged VM systems to provide HA. If a VM instance of StorCycle fails, a VM instance of StorCycle will be auto-restarted on a new node.

“As an enterprise technology partner with a focus on data center modernization, we see organizations struggling to manage growing data sets every day,” said Mat Brown, president, One Technology. “With Spectra’s StorCycle we have an elegant solution for clients to solve data issues across their entire infrastructure. Our customers like StorCycle because it is easy to deploy, streamlines their workflows and automates the management of their data. The byproduct ends up being improved infrastructure performance and lower costs.“