World premiere: PoINT Archival Gateway

At the NetApp Insight 2018 in Las Vegas (October 22 - 24) and Barcelona (December 3 - 5) PoINT presents the new software PoINT Archival Gateway (PAG) for the first time. The high performance and high scalable solution store huge amounts of data through a standardized REST S3 interface on mass storage systems like tape and optical libraries, e.g. for the efficient data offload and protection of NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. PoINT Archival Gateway is the perfect solution for Big Data Storage.

In addition, PoINT presents the new version 6.3 of the established solution PoINT Storage Manager which provides automatic and policy-based migration and archiving of data from primary storage systems (e.g. NetApp FAS). Thereby the new Web Client allows access to archived data independent from the operating system.

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Use PoINT Archival Gateway to transfer data from S3 to tape

The PoINT Archival Gateway (PAG) software solution receives large volumes of data from S3-compatible systems and applications and stores it on tape and optical systems with high-performance. This software product is designed to manage hundreds of petabytes of data. At the same time it`s made for protecting these data against manipulation and inadvertent deletion using retention management and WORM functionality. Archived data are protected within using user-specified time constraints for making it easy to meet industry-specific compliance guidelines. Performance levels are also outstanding: the solution is capable of reading and writing over one petabyte per day.

3-2-1 backup strategie

Safe means safe. The “3-2-1 rule” says that companies should always keep three copies of all data on two different media systems, with one copy held externally. The PoINT Archival Gateway lets you implement exactly this strategy, as the software converts from one medium to another (including removable media for off-site storage) when copying from systems such as NAS drives or object storage systems to tape or optical drives.

Digitization for public services

Farewell paper archives; hello archiving software. Now that the German government has agreed on its “Digitale Verwaltung 2020” (“Digital Administration 2020”) program, public authorities need to make a few changes. The first step is to set up the technical framework required for e-binders and digital archives. Step two is to answer one question: what to do with your existing piles of data, and in particular the inactive data you still need to keep? PoINT Storage Manager offers public authorities the solution: rules-based archiving with transparent read access. This secure archiving software fully meets compliance requirements and data protection guidelines.

Industry 4.0 makes data to a valuable resource

Productions should be quick and error-free. The revolution "Industry 4.0" even wants to be better. The aim: a self-organized production process by a closer communication between human and device. The car industry tests such an optimized process partially with recreated assembly lines in virtual reality. As a result engineers want to transmit individual work steps without errors. But what happens at this point?
Data growth! These data are not only a valuable resource. The handling is also a challenge because the data require a reliable protection and a suitable preservation. Key terms: "missing archiving and overloaded expensive primary storage". Like Industry 4.0 PoINT Storage Manager optimizes data management and also works automatically.