Cloud gateway and cloud archiving better together

 Data is the lifeblood of your business. If you are similar to most of the business you require lots of storage, in order to keep your applications up and running. You have to also ensure that your data is safely and securely backed up. It means that every time you add and application or your business grows, you need to add more storage. What if there is a better way, what if you did not have to keep adding more and more servers storage and networking devices. The solution which reduces your storage management costs.  Using cloud archiving enables you to automatically archive data, manage your primary storage and save money. Archiving provides an easy and secure way to preserve protect and retrieve your organization's most sensitive data.

Cloud archiving and cloud gateway

When it comes to understanding cloud archiving it is essential to know that you require a smooth transport of data in different clouds. Cloud gateway allows you to have smooth transfer of archival data. The main function of cloud gateway is to translate your storage access standard like iSCSI and CIFS/NFS to the APIs that are popular in cloud. Mainly the cloud gateway allows to transfer data more efficiently. This is mainly done by reducing protocol chatter and data reduction technology, like data deduplication and snapshots.

Cloud archiving and cloud gateway is amazing combination. They go hand in hand. Cloud gateway makes the cloud archiving process simpler. Together they have multiple features which combine and provide smart data archiving.

Cloud gateway provides flexible as it allows you to allocate bandwidth between your multiple clouds which depends on your needs. You can also provision network appliances like routers and firewalls virtually. It therefore cuts down long provision lead time.

Benefits of cloud archiving and cloud gateway together

Convenience

Cloud archiving is made convenient for you when managed with cloud gateway. The cloud gateway is a single point you need to purchase, manage and configure. Other is handled by cloud gateway

Control

You have full control over your data. You can configure more applications and add more archival data in your storage. But you can access your data any time and control it easily.

Scalability

When it comes to cloud storage solutions, the key is you have to have scalability. Required storage is unpredictable and you suddenly need scalability of your data. Cloud gateway and cloud archiving provide you with unlimited scalability.

Virtualised network functions

Network functions such as routers can now be virtualised and be provisioned almost instantaneously. As these appliances are provisioned virtually, you don’t need to be locked to long term contracts and device ownership.