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ARKIVIO auto-stor ADVANCES LEAD IN LIFECYCLE MGMT SOLUTIONS

Arkivio Inc, a leading provider of Lifecycle Management solutions for electronic data and information, announced at the Storage Networking World Conference that they are shipping the latest release of ARKIVIO auto-stor software to their customers.

ARKIVIO auto-stor remains the industry's only Data and Information Lifecycle Management solution to use unique customer data and storage value scores to automate the prioritization and placement of data on the most appropriate storage resource. Supporting platforms based on the UNIX and Windows operating systems, the latest release includes innovative automated actions such as seamless migration, relocation, replication and deletion. A powerful policy simulator is also included allowing IT administrators to test the results of policy configurations before actually deploying them.

"The unique storage solutions we deliver to our customer base is the real value of ARKIVIO auto-stor," notes Giovanni Paliska, president and CEO of Arkivio. "Our latest release raises the performance bar even further by helping our customers achieve both economic and operational benefits by consolidating disparate storage resources, reducing backup and recovery windows, complying with government regulations on data retention management, and reducing storage TCO with tiered-storage architectures."

"Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is as significant a business process as CRM and ERP because it solves key problems such as ineffective storage utilization, the costs of managing storage, and the ability to manage storage growth surrounding data replication, disaster recovery / business continuance and backup," adds Nancy Hurley, senior analyst for the Enterprise Storage Group. "IT departments considering an effective ILM implementation can significantly streamline costs and management efficiencies and products like ARKIVIO auto-stor can help the enterprise to consolidate and optimize their utilization of resources while reducing the acquisition and management cost of storage over time."

ARKIVIO auto-stor Solutions:

• Non-disruptive Server Consolidation: ARKIVIO auto-stor enables IT administrators to automate the consolidation process from initial planning and identification of data and storage resources to transition from legacy systems to the newer devices. Automated migration and movement policies consolidate data from multiple disparate file servers onto one or more network-attached storage devices without impact to users or applications. Clean-up policies remove unwanted information such as duplicate or temporary files.
• Disaster Recovery Optimization: ARKIVIO auto-stor provides administrators with a cost-effective solution for automating the replication of files across heterogeneous servers and across locations to improve business continuance. The ARKIVIO solution also reduces backup and recovery times by identifying and migrating low-value data from primary to secondary storage devices reducing the time it takes to implement full-system backups.
• Data Retention Management: ARKIVIO auto-stor lets IT departments organize and classify their data and storage resources based on their relative importance to the business or to comply with government regulations in order to drive the appropriate data to an online archive. The ARKIVIO solution manages the data in the archive by automating data movement to lower cost storage as its value to the company decreases or by removing the data once its retention period has expired.
• Tiered-Storage Architecture: ARKIVIO auto-stor enables automated capacity management across a tiered-storage infrastructure. IT administrators are able to seamlessly automate migration and movement of low-value data from high-cost to low-cost storage tiers based on pre-defined policies. This enables them to control the life cycle costs of storage and to ensure data that is most critical to a business is stored on storage systems with higher reliability, availability and scalability.

For more information on ARKIVIO auto-stor and these different customer solutions, visit www.arkivio.com/product_solutions.html.