Cloud-integrated Enterprise Storage
StorSimple is the leader in enterprise cloud storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. It dramatically simplifies and reduces storage costs for the exploding amounts of corporate content and data by offering a single cloud integrated appliance that delivers primary storage, live always on archiving, data protection and disaster recovery. This is particularly powerful in a regional office environment where you have a family of all of your virtualized applications supported by one appliance for the whole storage lifecycle and you often require local SharePoint performance with global consistency. The appliance integrates the cloud into existing, native and virtualized, enterprise applications with no change to the application or the stack, and with up to 90% savings. StorSimple is the first and only enterprise cloud storage vendor to be certified for Windows Server 2008 and also VMware and was recently recognized by Storage Magazine as a Product of the Year in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category.
Key features of the StorSimple solution include:
The StorSimple enterprise cloud storage appliance delivers primary storage, archiving, data protection and disaster recovery in a single cloud integrated system. This integrates the cloud into existing enterprise applications in ten minutes, with no change to the application or the stack, and with up to 90% savings.
- Local Performance - Applications get local SSD performance with the elasticity of the cloud through automatic tiering based on a BlockRankTM algorithm that does for blocks of content what Page Rank does for Google.
- Secure - All content stored in the cloud is first deduplicated and subsequently has military grade encryption applied to it. The key is stored on-premises further increasing the level of security
- Enterprise Class - The StorSimple appliance offers enterprise grade high-availability with a fully redundant disk controller and no single point of failure. It also supports non-disruptive software upgrades.
- Application Optimization - The appliance has an application optimization plug-in architecture with plug-ins for user files and archives, virtual machine libraries and desktops and also SharePoint and Exchange. StorSimple supports local SharePoint performance with a single SharePoint farm for global consistency.
- Cloud Snapshots - The appliance offers offsite cloud data protection using the Microsoft VSS framework. Scheduled cloud snapshots are application consistent and cloud isolated supporting instant online cloud restore and disaster recovery.
- Disaster Recovery - Disaster Recovery (DR) is as simple as mounting a volume making it simple to test DR regularly from multiple locations eliminating the need for expensive and complex tape backup software and procedures.
- Windows and VMware Certified - The StorSimple appliance is the only enterprise cloud storage vendor to be certified for Windows Server 2008 and also VMware, which is critical for any corporate environment.
