ParaScale and Moonwalk Partner to Deliver a Cloud-based Hierarchical Storage Management Solution.Proactively Define Data Migration Policies and Free-up Costly Tier1 Storage ORLANDO, Fla. -- ParaScale, Inc., a leader in developing cloud storage Cloud storage (also known as Cloud computing or Cloud services) is a model of networked data storage where data is stored on multiple virtual servers, generally hosted by third parties, rather than being hosted on dedicated servers. solutions, and Moonwalk moon·walk n. A walk on the surface of the moon by an astronaut. intr.v. moon·walked, moon·walk·ing, moon·walks To walk on the surface of the moon. Inc., the technology leader in Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. software, today announced at Gartner ITxpo the availability of an integrated storage management solution that enables organizations to offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. infrequently accessed data from expensive primary storage to an economical ParaScale cloud. The combined ParaScale/Moonwalk solution provides a data management framework that reduces costs by decreasing the dependency on expensive primary storage and shrinks backup windows. Tweet this: #ParaScale and Moonwalk enable enterprises to decouple storage performance and capacity. Buy only what you need http://bit.ly/4aXbi1 The volume of digital data created and stored by organizations continues to grow exponentially. A large percentage of this data is required to be accessible at all times even though the data may not be accessed frequently. Administrators typically will continue to purchase primary storage to accommodate the growth of this data. This primary storage continues to grow even though the majority of the data may not be accessed for some time and the enterprise ends up paying for capacity to store infrequently accessed files. To assist storage administrators with identifying these files, ParaScale and Moonwalk have partnered to offer an integrated hierarchical storage management See HSM. solution that empowers administrators to proactively define data migration policies and enable these policies throughout the enterprise. Using such policies, administrators can migrate their infrequently accessed primary data to a private ParaScale storage cloud. The end result is a significant reduction in TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. of purchasing and managing storage. The ParaScale/Moonwalk solution runs on commodity Linux hardware. Enterprises can start small, try out the solution in a free, low-risk environment, and scale seamlessly to petabyte One quadrillion bytes (one trillion kilobytes). Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. See peta, binary values and space/time. (unit) petabyte - 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1024 terabytes or roughly 10^15 bytes. 1024 petabytes is one exabyte. scale with no downtime. Administrators can migrate data to the ParaScale storage cloud based Refers to operations that take place within the network infrastructure. The phrase generally refers to network servers performing some process in contrast to running a similar application in the user's computer. See cloud. on policy which they can determine through the use of the Moonwalk software. Users can define data migration rules based Using "if-this, do that" rules to perform actions. Rules-based products implies flexibility in the software, enabling tasks and data to be easily changed by replacing one or more rules. on attributes of their data, and run simulations to determine the savings in storage capacity of primary storage before doing the actual migration. By migrating primary data off Tier 1 storage, the amount of storage that needs to be backed up is greatly reduced, thus dramatically shrinking backup windows and reducing cost. "The amount of unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. being generated in home directories, document management systems and other locations is exploding and most users expect this data to be available online without retrieval delays," said Sajai Krishnan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ParaScale. "Using ParaScale, enterprises can build a secure private cloud within their data center and transparently migrate data off their primary storage to the cloud using Moonwalk. This value-add solution offers customers an easy-to-use, scalable process for reducing the total cost of storage and is representative of the partnerships ParaScale is forging to deliver practical, affordable private cloud storage to enterprises." "Moonwalk software integrates seamlessly with the ParaScale cloud such that Moonwalk can be used to classify and move data based on user-defined attributes completely transparent to the end user," said Michael Harvey For Michael Harvey, the type designer and calligrapher, see Michael Harvey (lettering artist) For Michael Harvey, the software executive, see Michael Harvey (software executive) Michael Harvey, aka MC Harvey , CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Moonwalk. "Once data has been identified, automatic schedules can be setup to transfer files from primary storage to a virtual file system on the ParaScale cloud, providing administrators with a clean and elegant mechanism to decrease their dependency on more expensive primary storage." Availability The integrated ParaScale/Moonwalk cloud-based storage management solution is available immediately and can be downloaded from the ParaScale website. A free version allows enterprises to migrate up to 4 TBs of data from their primary storage to the ParaScale cloud. For more information please visit www.parascale.com. Supporting Resources: Details of the combined solution are available in a white paper located here: www.parascale.com/index.php/parascale-moonwalk-white-paper Information about ParaScale Technology Partners is available here: http://www.parascale.com/index.php/partners/technology-partners About Moonwalk Moonwalk, founded in 2002, has introduced the most comprehensive ILM software available today. The Moonwalk technology enables data migration, data back up and archive functions all with out the use of middleware - making the Moonwalk solution the most cost effective, non-evasive, and easy to use ILM product available today. The Moonwalk solutions offers ILM functionality for all storage devices including content addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be storage and cloud storage. Moonwalk solutions are available for all major operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and support most storage platforms. Early adopters of Moonwalk can be found in banking, healthcare, services, distribution, education, government, research and development, aerospace, telecommunications and broadcasting industries. More information can be found at www.moonwalkinc.com. About ParaScale, Inc. ParaScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is the leader in cloud storage software that enables service providers to easily deploy storage cloud service offerings in under a month. As a software-only solution that can be downloaded from the web and applied to any standard Linux platform, ParaScale Cloud Storage enables hundreds of commodity servers to be clustered together to act as a file repository with massive capacity and parallel throughput. For more information visit www.parascale.com. All product names and references remain the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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