Stop Paying Primary Storage Prices for Cold Data
Komprise and Spectra BlackPearl Object Gateway: Transparent Tiering to Disk and Tape
Enterprise SSD prices are running at 6.5X year-ago levels,1 yet most file data goes cold within months. Komprise indexes and analyzes data across your storage and transparently tiers cold files to Spectra BlackPearl.
Why Komprise and Spectra Logic?
- Know the savings before you move data. A Komprise Flash Stretch assessment finds inactive data across file and object storage and models what tiering it saves. That same analysis indexes and classifies the data, so it’s ready to search and curate for AI later.
- Users and applications keep working as before. With Komprise Transparent Move Technology, files tiered to tape stay accessible from their original location. BlackPearl Object Gateway provides Amazon S3-compatible access to Spectra disk and tape for long-term retention.
- Delay the next storage purchase. Komprise continuously tiers cold data off high-performance storage. That frees capacity at a time when storage prices are at historic highs and procurement delays keep growing.
- Set the right policy for each team. Tailor tiering policies by department or dataset and automate data movement across billions of files.
- No lock-in and no rehydration costs. Files tier as native objects with their metadata, permissions and attributes intact, so data stays portable.
- Get tape economics without managing tape. BlackPearl Object Gateway manages disk and tape behind the scenes, so applications never interact with tape directly.
- Strengthen ransomware resilience. Spectra BlackPearl adds Object Lock immutability, encryption and a physical air gap for tiered data.
- Tiered data stays useful for AI. Komprise Smart Data Workflows and Universal File MCP find, classify and curate specific datasets for AI and analytics, even after the data is on tape.