ARKIVIO :: Analyst Opinions
"From my perspective, compliance should not be seen as another corporate tax, but as an opportunity, a strategic investment that also helps an organization improve its ability to manage and protect its valuable information assets throughout their lifecycle. Arkvio's Auto-Stor solution can help organizations assess, classify, and then apply appropriate levels of retention and data protection to compliance-related data throughout its lifecycle."
Peter A. Gerr - Analyst
Storage Systems, Emerging Technologies & Market Trends
"Lifecycle Management of data and information is both a process and solution that must provide methods for identifying and classifying data and storage resources and attaching a value to each set. Lifecycle Management encompasses the functionality of storage resource management (SRM), automated data migration or hierarchical storage management (HSM), and policy-based automation for data management actions, such as data movement, replication, purging, archiving, data retention and backup."
Dr. Robert Passmore
Gartner, Inc.
"After exhaustive evaluations of the competition, we chose ARKIVIO® auto-stor because of its ease of installation, intuitive operation, reduction in routine administration tasks and robust software. In addition, it allows us the ability to automatically and intelligently utilize all of our storage - bringing about immediate cost savings and making storage management for Allegra Systems effortless. ARKIVIO® auto-stor has reduced our need to constantly write scripts and perform manual data resource operations. For new servers being added to our system, the software can automatically manage the new storage resource without our intervention. We expect this software to significantly reduce our operating cost for hardware and minimize administrator firefighting."
George Farrall
Executive Vice President
Allegra Systems
"Automated Data Migration (ADM) tools can automate the migration of data from one storage class to another based on user defined policies. ADM solutions are essentially a combination of intelligent SRM and HSM solutions. Arkivio offers this type of solution but takes it to the next level by enabling users to implement movement based on the value of the data to the business, ensuring that resource usage is in line with business requirements."
Nancy Marrone
Senior Analyst
Enterprise Storage Group
"Storage management has to move forward in active management of data, controlling where it is placed based on intelligent policies. Arkivio is addressing this need with a solution to manage data and move it to the storage location based on the value of data as set by policy."
Randy Kerns
Evaluator Group
"One area that is often overlooked when implementing a disaster recovery plan is the length of time required for a recovery. As businesses move aggressively to minimize exposure to disruption and loss of critical data, new Data Management solutions that identify less valuable and/or less accessed data and automate migration from primary storage to secondary storage (i.e. near-online, low-cost NAS) can significantly reduce backup windows and speed disaster recovery times."
Raymond Paquet
Gartner
"Arkivio has a solid story. ARKIVIO® auto-stor takes a costly but indispensable asset - storage - and makes it more efficient. Efficiency translates to ongoing cost savings, which ultimately helps the bottom line. This is business, after all. Enterprises looking to squeeze greater efficiencies out of their storage infrastructure, Arkivio auto-stor stands out as one to consider."
Michael Fisch
The Clipper Group
"IT administrators are looking for more cost-effective ways to utilize their storage in the enterprise. We were attracted to the ARKIVIO® auto-stor software because it took storage management in a completely different direction from the traditional method which tended to be more passive in nature. The ARKIVIO solution allows the administrator to set automation policies that transparently move data to the most appropriate storage resource - resulting in immediate savings in both the day-to-day operational tasks that burden IT administrators and in optimizing an enterprise’s existing storage infrastructure - which can be beneficial for companies that are looking to lower the cost of storage."
Paul Collins
Vice President of Technology
Total Tec
Most SRM vendors currently report on the use of storage resources by file type, but don't determine how valuable that data is to the organization. Nor can they take any action on the data itself (with the exception of some hard quota managers which will delete files). In contrast, the Arkivio product can weigh data value in real time and take action based on the relative importance of the data to the organization. The action may be to move the data to secondary storage or to set it up for archive. "That is currently a clear differentiator."
Nancy Marrone
Senior Analyst
Enterprise Storage Group
"We are currently integrating ARKIVIO® auto-stor into many of our large customers' IT sites to help them understand and optimize their storage environment." "Arkivio's agentless discovery allows us to unobtrusively determine for our customers how to optimize their backup windows, fully utilize existing capacity, and implement new hardware for tiered storage and online archiving. Seamlessly implementing and automating these cost reducing projects would not be possible without the use of Arkivio's software solution."
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