Igneous Archive
Automatic Archiving, Integrated Search
Confidently move data off primary tier with File Insights recommendations
Traditional Archiving Slows Down IT and End Users
Moving infrequently accessed data to long-term retention can free up primary storage, saving the cost of housing
that data on a more pricey performance tier. Some enterprises create manual IT ticketing processes to archive
data. Other enterprises buy expensive software that “stubs” data by creating breadcrumbs in the primary storage
tier that point to the original data in archives. Both approaches fail to serve IT and end users.
With stubbing, end users most familiar with the data typically don’t get to decide what should be archived. Some
data ripe for archiving gets left in costly primary storage while IT preemptively archives other data. When end users
need archived files, they generally must submit a ticket to IT. And traditional archiving software wasn’t designed to
scale beyond petabytes so enterprises store subsets of their data among multiple, disjointed archive systems.
These operationally heavy and complex approaches frustrate end users and strain IT resources.
Modern Approach to Archiving Frees End Users and IT
Igneous Archive simplifies archiving by enabling end users and IT to control and access their archived data within a
single platform. It removes bottlenecks for business users and alleviates operational strain for IT. End users can
easily move data to Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud either via the command line (CLI) or by clicking the Archive Me
button from the web interface. IT can monitor and restrict archiving via enforced file permissions, and create
policies to automatically move data across primary storage, Igneous Storage, and public cloud.
Finding and restoring archived data is just as easy. End users can discover data through exports (NFS or SMB) or
via our powerful search interface. No IT intervention is required, freeing up IT teams to focus on higher value
projects. Uncertain what to archive? File Insights – a product feature of Igneous Archive – analyzes files and
recommends data that could be moved off primary storage.
What Does Igneous Archive Mean for You?
Archive
Recommendations
One-click
archiving
Easy
search
Fast
restore
IT
visibility
How Does Igneous Archive Work?
Features
Search &
Retrieval
• End user job submission
• Command line interface (Unix or Windows)
• Click-and-point user interface
• End user search with
instantaneous restore
Public Cloud
End user
• End user notification upon job
completion
• Igneous managed jobs
Igneous Hybrid
Storage Cloud
Primary
Storage
• Automated archiving job
management
IT Admin management
• Enforced file permissions
• Cloud storage services integration
• File Insights analyzes data and
recommends files for archiving
• Igneous remote monitoring,
troubleshooting, and software
updates
Igneous Archive requires minimal configuration and setup, and includes both
software and hardware integration. Simply decide what to archive and click a
button. Igneous automatically moves the data to archives. And data preservation
means data looks the same in archives as it does on primary storage. Recovering
data is as easy and familiar as a Google search.
Specifications
• Archiving from Network Attached
Storage using NFS and SMB
• End user access to archives via
NFS and SMB
This straightforward approach encourages end users to archive data, leading to
more files moved off of primary storage. Storage-aware, high-performance
archives and restores mean no software complexity and management, and no
system management.
• Integration with LDAP and Active
Directory
Your Igneous Archive subscription includes:
• Operational ease: Zero-Touch Infrastructure™ ensures that IT doesn’t have
to monitor, maintain, update, or troubleshoot your archives infrastructure. IT
About Igneous Systems
Igneous Systems is a Seattle-
can create policies to automatically move data across primary storage,
Igneous Storage, and public cloud.
based, venture-backed company
that designed the industry’s first
• Deep visibility: All your archives in one location means a comprehensive
secondary storage to handle
view of all your data. End users can archive their own data, and find and
massive file systems. Our hybrid
recover data via the command line, web, or File Insights. IT retains complete
cloud solutions offer the best of
both worlds — the on-premises
data of enterprise datacenters and
the agility of public cloud. To learn
more, visit www.igneous.io.
visibility, gaining operational oversight without operational headaches.
• Tight integration: Igneous Archive integrates with LDAP to enforce user
permissions. It also tightly integrates with cloud storage services like
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4-14-2017