Powered By RainStor for ISVs

If you’re an Independent Software Vendor delivering enterprise business applications, SaaS, or data integration solutions, you could be using RainStor to acquire new customers and lock-in existing customers. Your customers want to preserve the data being generated or managed by your software as simply and cost-effectively as possible. By embedding or integrating RainStor with your application you can help your customers achieve this goal.

You could be delivering the following solutions Powered by RainStor:

Application and Warehouse Archiving

If you provide “data-rich“ business applications or data warehouses then you could be using RainStor to deliver an archive module to your customers. You have an opportunity to drive incremental revenues while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your application for your customers. Rather than watch your customers struggle to maintain bloated application databases, or throw away data to avoid costly upgrades, you could facilitate their need to keep more data for longer.

In addition, SaaS providers can lower their infrastructure costs by providing customers with the ability to archive inactive data using RainStor. This additional archiving service can improve customer satisfaction by helping individual customers to avoid punitive charges for exceeding storage limits and deliver improved performance for all customers.

If you provide data migration or integration software, RainStor is a natural extension to existing Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and application archiving solutions. RainStor will enable you to simplify the management of archived data for your customers and deliver improved return on investment (ROI) for your solutions.

Application Retirement

If you want to accelerate your sales cycles and remove objections during new business sales, you could be offering an application retirement service using RainStor. By providing application retirement services you can remove concerns about the time, cost, and risk of retiring the legacy application you’re displacing.

In addition, SaaS providers can lower their infrastructure costs by providing customers with an alternative repository for their legacy data using RainStor. Rather than migrating all legacy data to the SaaS application, new customers can retain the data from legacy applications simply and cost-effectively with RainStor.

If you provide data migration or integration software, RainStor can add value to existing application decommissioning or retirement solutions. RainStor will enable you to reduce the long-term cost and complexity of managing legacy data for your customers, resulting in improved ROI of your solutions.

SaaS Data Escrow

If you provide SaaS applications then you’ve probably been asked by potential customers how you guarantee their data will always be available should you go out of business or should there be an unexpected outage. Even if you’re one of the few established SaaS providers that are able to avoid these questions, your larger customers probably have significant reporting demands that put a strain on your infrastructure. Both of these issues can be addressed by endorsing SaaS data escrow services Powered By RainStor that ensure snapshots of SaaS data are always available in an alternative cloud.

If you provide SaaS data migration or integration software, SaaS data escrow is a natural extension to the replication or synchronization services that you offer today. RainStor will enable you to provide customers with a simpler, more cost-effective repository to store escrow copies of SaaS data on-premise or in the cloud.

Log and Security Event Retention

If you provide Security Information Management (SIM) or CDR/IPDR data retention solutions, you could be delivering a much simpler, more cost-effective, and scalable solution to your customers. By using RainStor as the underlying data management platform, you could significantly lower the cost and complexity of retaining massive volumes of logs and events for your customers, providing a serious competitive advantage.

To discuss in more detail how you could use RainStor to deliver any of these solutions, contact us today.