{"id":2101,"date":"2012-06-12T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=6f7f8864ac5823285b9a9c2c244395ec"},"modified":"2012-06-12T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:55:00","slug":"actifio-announces-pas-5-0-radically-simple-copy-data-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/actifio-announces-pas-5-0-radically-simple-copy-data-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Actifio Announces PAS 5.0, Radically Simple Copy Data Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Actifio today launched PAS 5.0, a major platform upgrade that extends the company\u2019s signature capability \u2013 the ability to recover any application instantly for up to 90 percent less total cost of ownership (TCO) \u2013 to large scale enterprises and cloud service providers. This new version of its Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform \u2013 a proven virtualized storage solution with more than 100 users worldwide \u2013 addresses more deployment scenarios by delivering new cloud-based services including multi-tenancy, networking optimization and reporting capabilities. It also offers improved workflow to accelerate application development lifecycles, now including Oracle, with efficient self-service database cloning to lower test\/development storage costs across large enterprises. <\/span><\/p>\n

PAS has disrupted the enterprise storage industry by transforming its underlying economics with a purpose-built system optimized for the real driver of today\u2019s data storage explosion: copy data. By focusing on smarter and more efficient copy data management \u2013 where it is not unusual for a business to maintain 13-120 redundant copies of production data \u2013 Actifio provides faster recovery and more reliable data protection for up to 90 percent less cost than traditional backup and recovery point tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe copy data explosion is creating significant problems for the enterprise and the reason is that a whole slew of traditional, expensive and siloed data backup and recovery applications can\u2019t instantly find, manage and protect ever-increasing data assets,\u201d Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO of Actifio. \u201cWith PAS 5.0, enterprises can create and maintain a single copy of everything in their production environment, eliminating the need for multiple redundant copies. It also recovers data within seconds, which is more important than ever in mission-critical environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Through Actifio\u2019s radical simplification of the copy data management problem, organizations are freed to reinvest dollars often counted in the millions of annually recurring expenses into more strategic IT initiatives driving growth and innovation. PAS users \u2013 including Boston University Medical Campus; Audax Group; NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable Company; City of South Portland; and Jones & Bartlett Learning \u2013 are already realizing such savings and putting those resources to better use inside their own organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding ways to extend our current IT investments into new areas can make a good technology decision a great technology decision,\u201d said Erik Dubovik, vice president of IT, Audax Group. \u201cThis is exactly the case with PAS 5.0 because it lets me simplify copy data management for more of our environment in addition to lowering test and development storage costs by 95 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur work in the fight against disease is essential but it generates unwieldy \u2018Big Data\u2019 that\u2019s hard to store, share and protect using conventional tools,\u201d said Dr. John Meyers, assistant professor of medicine and director of technology for the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. \u201cPAS 5.0 will let us recover anything, physical or virtual, across our entire data center \u2013 instantly \u2013 with a single solution with 80 percent less dedicated backup storage. For us, that will save time, money and trouble \u2013 and allow us to focus on the advancement of science.\u201d<\/p>\n

This new release coincides with the accelerating worldwide adoption of PAS, which has been installed by hundreds of customers and sold by more than 120 value added resellers worldwide. This momentum has enabled Actifio to double revenues for seven consecutive quarters and expand in key regions across Europe, Asia\/Pacific and the Middle East. It has also resulted in tremendous industry-wide acclaim for Actifio, which was recently chosen as one of Gartner\u2019s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies1<\/sup> for 2012.<\/p>\n

The new PAS 5.0 supports larger deployments and more diverse enterprises while accelerating the test and development process in Oracle environments. Actifio has significantly bolstered the scalability and performance of PAS 5.0 with these powerful new features:<\/p>\n