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Companies of all sizes must retain massive and growing volumes of data for longer to satisfy business and regulatory requirements. This “Big Data” problem is often associated with unstructured information such as emails, documents, images, and video. However, most business-critical information is stored within production databases, data warehouses, and log files as structured data that is complex to manage and access.
Making the Big Data problem smaller
We enable our partners to deliver online data retention solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of preserving information in the enterprise or the cloud, while ensuring on-demand access and compliance.
RainStor is a specialized repository for inactive or read-only structured data. Some data, such as logs or security events, does not change and is born read-only when it is created. In contrast, data in production databases or data warehouses becomes inactive and historical over time. Regardless of the source or lifecycle of the data, RainStor is the optimal repository for inactive structured data that companies need or want to keep. Unlike traditional databases that are designed for transactional processing, or data warehouses that are designed for high-performance analytics, RainStor is designed for simple, low-cost, and low-touch data retention.
One technology for multiple solutions
The RainStor software significantly reduces the total cost of preserving information through extreme data compression, simplified data management, and near-perfect scalability on commodity hardware. Our technology can be used to deliver online data retention solutions for any company in any industry that needs to retain large volumes of structured data for regulatory or business purposes.
If you’re an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Systems Integrator (SI), or Managed Service Provider (MSP) you could be using RainStor to deliver the following solutions or services to your customers:
- Application Archiving
- Application Retirement
- Warehouse Archiving
- SaaS Data Escrow
- Log and Security Event Retention
Learn more about these solutions or the RainStor technology.