Cloud storage is traditionally used for offsite backup, data distribution, and archiving. While it has many benefits, public cloud also raises security, compliance and control concerns.
Today, many organizations are benefiting from a hybrid cloud storage model in which some data is stored in the cloud and some stored using on premise disk and tape solutions. Spectra’s BlackPearl Converged Storage System enables massive amounts of data to be stored forever, at virtually no cost, and now includes cloud storage as yet another controlled storage option.
Acting as a centralized object storage gateway, BlackPearl provides a single interface that lets users easily send and retrieve large amounts of data directly from their existing native applications, to and from any storage platform including online and nearline disk, digital tape including ejected disaster recovery copies, and the public cloud. Link to
In fact Spectra’s BlackPearl integrates directly with Amazon S3 Standard, and Standard – Infrequent Access (Standard-IA), and is one of few products that will automatically restore data archived to Glacier. Spectra’s BlackPearl provides a powerful, self-contained, policy driven solution for all types of archive and tiered storage both locally and in the cloud. Link to press release.