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NuView UNVEILS AUTOMATED DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

NuView Inc, a leader in the simplifying of management of networked file storage, announced the immediate availability of an automated Data Lifecycle Management solution for enterprises seeking to both control the explosive growth of data in their environments and optimize the usage of diverse storage platforms, as a means to reducing the total cost of (storage) ownership (TCO). StorageX's Global Namespace uniquely enables enterprises to seamlessly move their data over its lifecycle, across the storage hierarchy, without impacting users' access to the data. NuView's flagship product StorageX incorporates a cost-effective solution for data lifecycle management in heterogeneous environments, while optimizing the utilization of critical resources including administrative manpower and storage capacity.

StorageX's Data Lifecycle Management solution is designed to offer significant benefits to businesses in certain large industry verticals, where the rapid of growth is being driven in part by regulatory requirements. Regulatory bodies and regulations, such as the SEC, FDA, DoD and HIPAA, require enterprises to retain their data for prolonged time periods and in a manner that facilitates easy access to that data. As a result, enterprises are seeking storage management solutions that enable them to comply with legal requirements in a cost-effective manner.

"Companies need to develop an infrastructure to manage data throughout its life cycle, but varying access methods for online, nearline, and off-line archive data create enormous education and application integration challenges," said John MacArthur, group vice president (storage research) at IDC. "StorageX's Global Namespace enables companies to migrate data through a traditional storage hierarchy while maintaining consistent access methods, making the data management process transparent to users and simplified for administrators."

Enterprises need to create storage tiers in order to streamline the placement of data on storage devices based on its relative value to the organization, thereby aligning storage practices with business objectives. StorageX now enables the policy-based movement of data automatically across storage devices to create tiers of storage, as a method for optimizing the lifecycle costs of data in the enterprise.

"StorageX's policy-based automation of data movement across the enterprise is the only non-disruptive solution I know of for implementing a tiered storage architecture, as users' access to data remains unaffected despite recurring changes in its physical location," said Steve Duplessie, Principal and Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group. "StorageX's Data Lifecycle Management solution is open, standards-based, and complements data management solutions from leading storage vendors."

StorageX uses a Global Namespace to unify file storage that is distributed throughout the enterprise on heterogeneous storage platforms, resulting in simplified management of storage resources and enhanced storage capacity utilization. Users see a single, logical view of distributed files, enabling them to access data intuitively, as compared with navigating through myriad data paths. As a result, administrators can implement tiers of storage in their environments, without affecting users' access to the physical data.

With a robust Data Lifecycle Management solution, NuView closes the loop on enterprise data management by providing the entire gamut of data services including storage aggregation, policy-based replication and migration, rapid failover and disaster recovery, and now data lifecycle management, all through a tightly integrated solution that can be managed from a single easy-to-use interface. Enterprises can now effect end-to-end data management using a single cost-effective solution as compared with a patchwork of point solutions, to create unprecedented cost efficiencies in their storage infrastructures.

According to Rahul Mehta, CEO of NuView Inc, "StorageX's Data Lifecycle Management solution directly addresses requests from leading IT organizations for the means to manage rampant data growth and meet new legal requirements by moving data across heterogeneous devices, based on intelligent rules, and without causing downtime to users. Enterprises can for the first time manage data growth proactively rather than reactively, without any additional consumption of human resources, thereby making their storage management future-proof."