Success Stories Overview

Brokerage Group Migrates 60% of Primary Data to On-Line Archive - SAVES $1.7 MILLION

ARKIVIO® auto-stor enables JKL Brokerage Group to use advanced policy automation to migrate low-value data from primary storage to low-cost NAS, rather than off-line tape. This reduces the time period data remains on primary storage from two years to six months. Over time, JKL Brokerage Group is able to migrate over 60 percent or 21 terabytes of their legacy data off primary storage prolonging the useful life of their primary storage devices and saving the company $1.7 million by deferring future hardware purchases.

Top 200 Law Firm Automates Storage Consolidation

A & B & C gradually decommissions their legacy systems in order to minimize impact to end user productivity and application availability. The result is an automated process that ensures that new storage can be brought online without the downtime and support calls resulting from a sudden cut-over. Additionally, automated data migration and movement policies reduce the hands on activity of administrators that is both costly and error prone.

Software Developer Reduces Backup/Recovery Window by 65%

The ARKIVIO® auto-stor solution automates the migration of low-value data from primary storage to secondary storage, enabling this Software Developer to run nightly incremental and weekly full-system backups on only the most active/valuable data. This creates significant operational efficiencies since the IT administrators do not have to manually examine each file, its owner, project, creation date and last access time. Additionally, this reduces the full backup window by as much as 65 percent - or from 18 hours to 10 hours and ensures that following an outage Acme Company is able quickly recovery their most critical files. Acme Company will also benefit from deferred tape procurement purchases and increased utilization of their lower-cost NAS storage.

Fortune 500 Electronics Manufacturer Saves $3.9 Million Automating Tiered Storage Architecture

After implementing ARKIVIO® auto-stor, GHI Company immediately frees up storage capacity on their high-end SAN devices by migrating less valuable data to their low-cost NAS appliances. Within the first year, a total of 7.6 terabytes of data is migrated. In addition, GHI Company defers incremental SAN purchases, which results in a total hardware savings of $3.9 million by the end of the first year at just one Business Unit. As a result of implementing ARKIVIO® auto-stor, GHI Company is able to achieve a more cost-effective balance between its storage tiers as it makes better use of its lower cost network storage.

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Rocket Software develops, licenses, and supports enterprise infrastructure software and solutions. Rocket services customers in all geographies through our worldwide sales force, support team, and R&D labs. Our customers deploy our products in these strategic infrastructure domains: application development, application modernization, business intelligence, compliance and security, consumer productivity, database servers, database tools, file transfer, mainframe productivity, network management, publishing and search, SOA and integration, storage management, terminal emulation, and text mining.

Rocket Arkivio is a leading provider of information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions for enterprise customers. Its software suite facilitates data archiving and retention, regulatory compliance, storage consolidation, backup and recovery optimization, and capacity management across a tiered-storage infrastructure, creating the most cost-effective storage environment to support organizations' growing data needs.