Smartest Path to the Cloud for File Data in the Public Sector
Storage-Driven vs File-Driven – Which is Better & Why?
Government agencies, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions are all under tremendous pressure to manage unprecedented data growth within nearly flat budgets and limited resources. A simple way to squeeze growth without breaking the bank is to manage hot and cold data differently. Offloading cold data to the cloud by using cloud tiering and cloud archiving solutions can cut 80% of storage and backup costs if done correctly.
Read this paper to understand the three alternatives to tier and archive file data to the cloud:
- Built-in storage cloud tiering (aka “pool” solutions)
- Distributed global file storage systems
- File-level cloud tiering
Not all cloud tiering and archiving solutions are the same. You may end up paying more in cloud egress and storage licensing costs by picking the wrong strategy.
Komprise and AWS: Easy Path for File Data to the Cloud
Moving the right file data to the right place in the cloud while saving costs is easy with Komprise and AWS. Know first, move smart, and take control of massive unstructured data growth while cutting enterprise storage, backup, and cloud costs.
Komprise is an AWS Migration and Modernization competency Partner. Learn more at komprise.com/aws
FAQs
How does Komprise help organizations reduce cloud and storage costs without disrupting users?
Komprise analyzes file usage across NAS, object storage and cloud environments to identify inactive cold data that can be transparently tiered to lower-cost storage. Unlike traditional storage-based tiering solutions that move proprietary blocks, Komprise uses standards-based file-level tiering with Transparent Move Technology (TMT), allowing users and applications to continue accessing files exactly as before. Organizations can reduce storage, backup and cloud costs by up to 70–80% while preserving existing workflows and avoiding vendor lock-in.
What is the advantage of Komprise file-level tiering compared to storage vendor cloud tiering?
Storage-native cloud tiering solutions typically use proprietary block-level mechanisms that can increase cloud egress costs, create rehydration penalties and lock customers into a specific storage platform. Komprise uses file-level intelligent data management that preserves full file fidelity, metadata and permissions while enabling direct cloud access to moved data. This allows organizations to tier data across heterogeneous storage environments, migrate between vendors more easily and avoid the costly rehydration processes common with proprietary storage-tiering architectures.
How does Komprise help stretch expensive flash storage capacity?
With NAND flash and DRAM prices rising sharply, many organizations are struggling to expand all-flash NAS environments economically. Komprise Flash Stretch helps enterprises identify inactive cold data consuming premium flash capacity and transparently tier it to lower-cost object storage or cloud tiers. This can free more than 70% of primary storage capacity without requiring a storage refresh, helping organizations delay hardware purchases, reduce backup infrastructure costs and reserve high-performance flash resources for active AI, analytics and business-critical workloads. (TechTarget)
Can Komprise help organizations use cloud data for AI and analytics initiatives?
Yes. By moving inactive file data to cloud object storage while preserving direct accessibility, Komprise creates a practical path to cloud-based AI and analytics services. Organizations can use the Komprise Global Metadatabase, Deep Analytics and Smart Data Workflows to search, classify, curate and prepare unstructured data for AI pipelines without disrupting users or manually moving large datasets. This enables enterprises to extract more value from cold data while reducing the load on expensive on-premises storage infrastructure.
How does Komprise reduce backup, recovery and ransomware costs?
Because Komprise transparently moves inactive files off primary storage, organizations can significantly shrink backup footprints and reduce the amount of data exposed to ransomware attacks. Tiered data stored in immutable cloud or object storage can help improve cyber resilience while lowering backup infrastructure and recovery costs. Unlike many storage-tiering solutions, Komprise preserves transparent access to files without forcing mass data recalls or rehydration during restores, migrations or analytics workflows.