EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

EMC announced the solution EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance allowing administrators of storage systems to work more simply and more effectively with file unstructured data. Cloud Tiering Appliance is the simple and economic solution for strategy implementation of multilevel storage at which corporate information moves according to the value to this or that level with the corresponding cost of storage. Besides, integration of Cloud Tiering Appliance with the unified storage systems of EMC VNX extends simplicity, efficiency and powerful opportunities of the VNX systems to clouds. Cloud Tiering Appliance allows the first and to the only unified storage system of EMC VNX automatically to move data on the cloud level of storage according to the set rules, at the same time offering all functions of the automated storage within DWH.

The reliable strategy of multilevel storage of EMC gives the chance to place data at the following levels:

• directly in public, private or hybrid clouds. Clouds, such as AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service where the Atmos systems are involved, and private clouds based on Atmos in corporate DPCs can use cost advantages of an output of "cold" data in a cloud now;
• in the unified storage systems of VNX with software of EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering Suite (FAST Suite). The packet of FAST Suite provides optimization of performance of VNX, automated management of data, reduces capital and operating costs;
• move them between storage systems, for example to archive on Data Domain or perform data migration from storage systems of Netapp or EMC Celerra on the unified storage systems of EMC VNX. By the end of this year EMC will in addition give to customers data migration opportunities from storage systems of Netapp on DWH of Isilon.

Such combination allows customers to receive the most complete solution of multilevel storage from available today in the market. EMC gives to customers an opportunity:

• cut down a capital expenditure due to decrease in total cost of ownership thanks to automatic movement of inactive data of levels with the smaller cost of storage or to a cloud. Besides, it is possible to bring data storage into accord with rules of access and long-term storage and at the same time as much as possible to release the main capacity of storage, having increased efficiency of investments in DWH;
• reduce operating expenses thanks to complete transparency for the administrator of storage systems and end users with the automated rules of storage set by the administrator executed on the schedule determined by it. Files are represented to end users as not moved and can be recovered at once;
• increase performance in the organizations due to reduction of windows of backup. It supplements backup strategy in the company – inactive files are excluded from copying process. Besides, making room on main systems of storage, divisions of IT can optimize performance of DWH.

New release with data encryption support

On October 8, 2012 EMC announced an exit of upgraded version of EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA):

• Now, according to the statement of corporation, the solution provides functionality of the built-in enciphering based on technology of key management of RSA, guaranteeing data protection at multilevel storage in a public cloud.

• New opportunities of a compression optimize capacity and use of volumes of DWH, in addition reducing costs for the organization of multilevel storage in a public cloud.

• CTA works with a cloud technology of Amazon S3 now — in addition to already implemented support of the Atmos system allowing clients to organize multilevel storage and to archive data in public clouds of more than 40 service providers in 70 points of the planet.

• The solution CTA increases scalability of DWH by 100% with the organization of multilevel storage to 500 million files on the device — for compliance to relevant and future IT requirements.

The volume of unloading of data before implementation of a mnogoyarusnost of storage