StrongLink: Autonomous Data Management

Enterprises from all vertical markets, from media and entertainment to life science from High Performance Computing/Research and higher education to government, virtually all enterprises struggle to manage data with fewer resources and at less cost. StrongLink from StrongBox Data Solutions is the leading data and storage resource management solution to control and lower costs, remove complexity, and enforce data protection and security.

StrongLink is the software solution to simplify heterogeneous storage management across local, network and cloud storage. It removes complexity from IT operations, reduces storage costs by as much as 80%, enforces data lifecycle management policies to meet global business continuity and disaster recovery. It immediately reduces OPEX by automating workflows to reduce administrative overhead.

 StrongLink: Autonomous Data Management

The Solution’s key benefits to improve storage & data management include:

Enforce Data Protection

• One-click file recovery

• Simplified business continuity & disaster recovery

StrongLink is designed to eliminate storage silos by simplifying global data management across incompatible storage product silos. Its global namespace creates a unified view across the entire storage environment regardless of storage vendor, platform or protocol.

File migrations are automated across any storage type without disruption to users or applications.  User defined policies combined with auto data-classification ensure that data is always on the right storage tier.  The solution delivers a new level of simplicity for tiering, archiving and hybrid cloud use cases while ensuring storage optimization and workflow automation.

It is not a traditional HSM. It does not use agents, stubs, or symlinks, but instead dynamically manages data placement across any connected storage type in the global namespace. It is not your grandfather’s HSM.

StrongLink unleashes the power of metadata by identifying and aggregating metadata from multiple sources including file system, application-specific, user-generated metadata. Metadata can be used to improve productivity, powering complex queries, automating workflows, and enriching user experience with data insights and analytics both for the data and storage. This powerful aggregated metadata creates a new level of usability for data management and protection to reduce IT staff workload and related costs.

StrongLink’s Autonomous Engines Powered by Metadata A single software solution with powerful engines to simplify storage management and derive the maximize value from data.

• Metadata engine
  Extract, auto-classify, tag, organize & manage
• Analytics engine
  Data intelligence & derived insights
• Query engine
  Global queries across all storage

Our customers use the solution for the following use cases: Automated data migration & data management, active archive, technology refresh, storage tiering, and business continuity & disaster recovery.

In addition to providing users with standard access to all data, its browser-based Control Panel provides rich functionality for both users and administrators.  These include workflow automation tools, global queries, metadata management, storage management with job scheduling and more.  This level of integration enables the management of all your data and storage resources from a single-pane-of-glass.

Enabling smarter data management, the solution keeps track of files across all storage resources, so the data itself provides the intelligence to drive policy-based actions and utilization reporting to facilitate storage planning.

The solution provides the unique ability of being deployed both in and out of the data path. It provides an unprecedented level of control and flexibility to ensure users can manage their data to meet business needs. Data can be accessed directly from any storage including tape and cloud with no dependency on the solution. File naming and paths are maintained eliminating vendor lock-in when deployed as an active archive or for business continuity.

• No capacity-based licensing
• Data lifecycle management
• Open RESTful API
• Deployment on your hardware or VMs
• Policy-based workflows
• Dynamic data movement
• Roles-based access controls with Active Directory
• Dynamic reporting
• Small file optimization
• Data visualization and query
• Versioning with point-in-time recovery

Our customers use the solution for the following use cases: Automated data migration & data management, active archive, technology refresh, storage tiering, and business continuity & disaster recovery.

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