Seven10 Joins HP Helion Ready Program
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 18 -- Seven10 Storage Software, the leading developer of seamless data migration and cloud-based Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) software, announced today that Seven10's Storfirst software products are now fully tested, certified, and supported for HP Helion OpenStack as part of the HP Helion Ready program for Solution Partners.
The HP Helion Ready Program offers a catalog of ISV and SaaS solutions certified to run on HP Helion OpenStack and/or HP Helion Development Platform across industry workloads suitable for use in a variety of environments, including public, private, virtual private, managed, and hybrid clouds. HP publishes the list of all HP Helion Ready applications via a catalog on their website. As part of the certification, Seven 10 has earned the "HP Helion Ready" badge, which signifies that Storfirst software can be confidently deployed by customers with HP Helion OpenStack and HP Helion Content Depot.
"As enterprises continue to evolve from traditional storage systems to cloud or hybrid-cloud storage, CIOs are looking for a trusted, secure and easier way to migrate their critical unstructured data while gaining immediate access to new storage infrastructure," said Bobby Moulton, President and CEO of Seven10. "Seven10 recognizes the burden to stay current with the latest integrations in object and cloud storage technologies. We understand these challenges and are providing customers an all-in-one solution that migrates legacy data and manages new investments in any storage technology, without creating budget shock."
"As part of the HP Helion Ready Program, Seven10 and HP will have a unique opportunity to ensure that Seven10's technology is tested and certified with HP Helion OpenStack," said Steve Dietch, Vice President, Cloud Go to Market, HP, adding that, "This will allow customers to deploy on HP Helion OpenStack seamlessly and reinforces HP and the Helion community's commitment to the growing ecosystem."
Seven10's Storfirst software seamlessly transitions unstructured data from the widest range of legacy storage environments, including EMC Centera, NetApp StorageGrid, HP MAS, IBM GMAS, Oracle SAMFS -- as well as any existing NAS platform, cloud gateway or file system. Storfirst is the industry's only solution offering automated data migration PLUS a standard SMB/CIFS or NFS file system layer for immediate access into any new storage platform, including HP Helion OpenStack and HP Helion Content Depot. HP Helion Content Depot is a fully integrated object storage solution based on HP Helion OpenStack and industry-leading HP ProLiant servers.
Storfirst offers HP users the following added benefits:
- Multiple layers of security: Encryption, file-locking, retention, multi-platform replication, portability, hashing, self-audits, tiering and write-once.
- Unparalleled flexibility: With native support of block and file-based disk, object, CAS, and even tape/VTL, Storfirst's policy-based tiering delivers true storage convergence for HP Helion users.
- Seamless migrations: Seven10 helps companies retire and/or refresh their current storage platform by supplying secure data migrations that deliver uninterrupted access and guarantee against data loss.
About Seven10 Storage Software
Seven10 is a market leading developer of cloud-based information lifecycle management (ILM) and data migration software. The company's award-winning technology provides organizations a simple, unified information management system that includes data migration capabilities from existing storage arrays. With support for on-premise and cloud technologies, Seven10 helps customers protect their most essential corporate data -- offering a secure, scalable, and centralized view of tiered storage. With proven success in healthcare, finance and other compliance-driven markets, Seven10's software delivers demands for immediate access while providing the most economical choices for long-term data retention. Technology built to outpace innovation.
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Source: Seven10
