Boston University Deploys Actifio PAS Platform to Manage Data-Growth Challenges

With an aim to gain control over its diverse, heterogeneous IT infrastructure, Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) recently deployed Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform from Actifio. 

With Actifio PAS, the university gets a simple, flexible and reliable solution, which is capable of supporting backup and recovery requirements in any physical, virtual or hybrid IT environment, a press release revealed.

Through its PAS platform, Actifio introduced virtualization into data management. The Actifio platform is optimized for managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT infrastructure and data management applications. By virtualizing the storage and management of data, Actifio PAS minimizes storage space and network bandwidth.

In addition, Actifio only requires users to manage two core concepts – applications and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Users simply select an application and set an SLA tailored to its specific needs. Actifio claims that its PAS solution can help the customers achieve ten times more saving on their IT budget.

The IT departments in the academic sector differ from corporate IT at the basic level. The enterprises use standardized software, hardware, operating systems and other IT applications, while IT infrastructure for academic research needs to be flexible to make room for the implementation of new technologies, to accommodate the advancements in research.

The traditional enterprise-class data backup and recovery solutions proved inadequate in managing the diverse and increasingly complex infrastructure of the research institution. Actifio PAS gave the institution a single solution for supporting all of its equipment, from different types of stand-alone legacy servers including Windows and Sun Solaris machines, to new virtual servers.

“IT organizations within world-class academic and research-based institutions such as BU Medical Campus struggle every day to store large amounts of data and to effectively manage, protect and analyze it. We built the PAS Platform to be a flexible solution that could easily scale with our customers’ data management and storage needs, a perfect fit for the Medical Campus. We look forward to expanding the scope of our relationship and evolving to help address the unique IT challenges scientists face when working to make discoveries in the life sciences,” Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio, explained in a statement.

Few months back, Actifio raised $33.5 million in an over-subscribed Series C financing round, which was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures also joined the round.