Spectra StorCycle saves you Money.  Here’s how…

Reduce Primary Storage Costs
Organizations need a solution which reduces primary storage costs in hardware, software and storage licensing. A reduction in expensive primary storage will also lead to less administrative and maintenance costs for the primary storage support, and allow IT administrators to be more productive in organizing and managing their infrastructure. A thoughtful reduction in primary storage will create a more organized, mission-critical primary storage infrastructure.

Reduce Backups
As the size of an organization’s primary storage is reduced, daily, weekly and monthly backups or replication snapshots are also smaller, leading to shorter backup windows, reduced backup storage costs, and faster recovery from disaster.

Improve Primary Storage Performance
Leaving only the mission critical and important data on the primary storage systems will lead to more free space, resulting in higher performance for active data. A lean primary storage system will serve more value to its users by eliminating unnecessary search results and improving a user’s ability to browse and interact with important data.

Free up Budget to Move to all Flash for Primary Tier
By removing inactive data from the Primary Tier of storage, an organization can now more affordably upgrade to a high-performance primary storage tier that uses SSD, NVMe, or other cutting-edge high performance technologies.

Seamlessly Extend Primary Storage
With StorCycle, a user’s access to primary storage can be preserved while capitalizing on lower cost secondary and archive storage. Historically, files and projects which are backed up or archived require an IT administrator to work with a user to identify and restore the file(s). StorCycle extends the access of primary storage to other tiers, and allows a user to easily restore any files or directories that exist on low-cost storage from their local work machine.

Make Disaster Recovery Copies of Data
A storage system which is capable of managing files should not be limited to simply moving a file from one storage location to another – it should also allow user to make copies of any data file for disaster recovery purposes. StorCycle enables a storage tier that can not only save an organization money and capacity on primary storage hardware and software costs, but also provide data management tools for offsite replication and disaster recovery (DR).

Incorporate the Cloud
StorCycle supports various workflows to allow organizations to better utilize the cloud with their data. Inactive data can be moved to the cloud for more cost-effective storage. Data can moved to the cloud can also be used for sharing with other groups and for use in cloud workflows such as transcoding and artificial intelligence (AI) tagging.

Responsive Data
StorCycle not only moves data from primary storage for cost-saving purposes, but it also helps to ensure that data is located on the appropriate storage medium at the right time. StorCycle will manage multiple copies of data and can ensure that at least one copy is stored in a location that is convenient and appropriate to a user’s needs.