Storage News

Cloud-As-A-Tier Extends Storage Capabilities

StorSimple announces the immediate availability of the StorSimple 1000, 5000 and 7000 series of application-optimized cloud storage appliances. These devices utilize an innovative “cloud-as-a-tier” architecture to dramatically increase the performance and greatly extend the storage capabilities of business-critical Microsoft applications. Deployed on-premise, StorSimple is used on Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft File Servers and Virtual Machine libraries.

"'When it comes to using cloud storage to deal with the explosion of content, companies need to think like Bing and Google search algorithms for storage, meaning that they should not treat all content the same, just as these search engines treat every web page differently to present the most important content on the first page,' said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. 'We take the same approach to cloud storage through software in StorSimple appliances that automatically deduplicate content, reducing storage requirements by a factor of 10. Every block is then ranked through a unique BlockRankTM algorithm to determine the working set of data that is necessary for every day operations, while automatically moving less used data, which can make up nearly 75 percent of a business’ data, to the cloud. This gives enterprises the best-of-both worlds - SSD performance and the elasticity of the cloud.'”