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RainStor’s eponymous product can be used as both an analytics data hub and as an archiving product. This paper is concerned with the product’s capabilities in the latter area. Note that the product is specific to storing, retrieving and managing archived data and not to deciding what data should be archived in the first place. In terms of its archiving capabilities, RainStor supports three different approaches, all of which are based on the same software, as follows:
- Archiving in the cloud—archiving as a service
- Archiving on Hadoop
- Archiving on conventional in-house platforms
This paper is concerned with the facilities provided, supported by the views of a number of RainStor customers to whom we have spoken.