Minimize Costs and Optimize Your Database Archiving Strategy with Cloud Storage

Companies of all sizes are rethinking their approach to data retention. Data volumes continue to grow exponentially. Companies have to hold onto data for long periods of time. The most cost-effective way to maintain these large, infrequently accessed data volumes is to take advantage of the latest computing trend: the cloud.

Cloud-based storage is already common. Roughly half of all archived email has moved to the cloud. Business-critical data housed in on-premise databases and enterprise applications is quickly following suit.

The Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option extends the capabilities of Informatica Data Archive to optimally store and easily and efficiently access inactive data from databases and enterprise applications in the cloud. With this option, your IT organization can take advantage of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) deployment options—such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—to target the cloud like any other storage system.

This option provides a highly scalable and high-performance data access service for archived data stored in the cloud. You can make the cloud an integral and transparent part of your strategy for storing enterprise data.

With the Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option, your IT organization can:

• Boost efficiency and lower costs by relying on the flexibility, pay-as-you-go pricing model, and scalability of cloud storage and cloud computing
• Reduce risk and ensure compliance by readily accessing data archived in the cloud
• Ensure recoverability and availability of data archived in the cloud with built-in redundancy, backup, and guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime
• Easily adapt your storage environment to meet changing requirements by centrally managing data archived on premise and in the cloud

Key features of the Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option include:

• Efficient, cost-effective cloud archiving
• Optimized access to data archived in the cloud
• A platform-neutral approach to managing data archived in the cloud
• Enterprise-grade disaster recovery and high availability
• Centralized management of on-premise and cloud archiving through a single user interface