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StorageCraft Gives Education The Solution For Unruly DataDRAPER, Utah, July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Educational institutions are dealing with an exponential growth in the amount of data they manage, as students and teachers embrace digital content, connected services and sophisticated experimentation that generate vast amounts of information. Educational institutions, from school districts to universities, are discovering that their legacy storage solutions are unable to keep pace with their data growth and management needs. StorageCraft is solving the problem with an innovative solution, StorageCraft for Education, specifically designed to meet the storage demands of educational organizations. To survive in today's digital environment, educational organizations need an efficient and affordable way to expand storage and improve data backup and recovery service levels. Unlike existing scale-up solutions, StorageCraft for Education cost-effectively handles the ever-increasing amounts of data that education organizations are grappling with today. Its built-in scale-out abilities accommodate future data storage requirements which avoids the pitfalls of upfront over-provisioning, and the need for costly and complex forklift upgrades later or the creation of numerous storage islands. Gone are the days of purchasing excess storage based on a three-to-five-year capacity plan. StorageCraft for Education offers either an HDD-based or all-flash solution. The all-flash solution costs less than $0.50 per effective GB. StorageCraft uniquely enables education institutions to purchase compatible SSDs at retail prices and then scale-out as needed with additional drives or nodes that can be deployed in just minutes. No configuration, no downtime, no application changes. Better still, as the retail price of SSDs continues to decline monthly, education organizations gain important cost savings on future storage purchases. Highly Affordable Alternative to Cloud-Based Storage "By 2025, data volume will be close to 1,000 percent more than it is today and legacy storage solutions will not be able to handle that," said Shridar Subramanian, vice president marketing and product management at StorageCraft. "With StorageCraft, educational institutions don't have to worry about sprawling storage islands. They don't have to deal with cumbersome forklift upgrades when they want to add storage. Thanks to our scale-out storage approach, they can easily purchase the storage they need over time while taking advantage of dive price declines and improving technology." Ease of Use StorageCraft OneSystem consistently provides real-time storage and system health monitoring by comprehensively understanding the state of installed disk drives, networks, remotely replicated storage and more. This means potential problems can be identified and resolved before they negatively impact applications. Leading Education Institutions Have Chosen StorageCraft With StorageCraft, MIT has seen both an increase in cost savings and a decrease in the hours that IT administrators spend on data storage and backup. Other benefits include enhanced uptime and robustness—the system has consistently delivered nearly 100 percent uptime since implementation—and the ability to manage their storage from any Web browser, anywhere. Another key benefit of StorageCraft is the "set it and forget it" nature of the platform. "It doesn't need a lot of babysitting after the fact to make sure everything is working," said Lee Berkowitz, MIT's IT and network manager. Pricing and Availability "From scale-out storage to backup and disaster recovery, StorageCraft is the comprehensive data management and protection solution that educational institutions have been waiting for," said Shridar Subramanian, vice president marketing and product management at StorageCraft. "They no longer have to lose sleep worrying about storing and protecting data. StorageCraft gives them peace of mind that they can cost-effectively meet the increasing data demands of their professors, students and research teams—and confidence that their data is always safe and secure." Follow StorageCraft: Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook About StorageCraft StorageCraft and ShadowProtect are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corp. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. © 2018 StorageCraft Technology Corp. All rights reserved. Contact Information: View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/storagecraft-gives-education-the-solution-for-unruly-data-300679774.html SOURCE StorageCraft |