CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, is introducing the new CTERA Data Archiving Solution—developed to help organizations identify inactive enterprise data and move it out of expensive primary storage to lower-cost storage tiers.
According to the company, the new solution combines CTERA InsightAI Data Service with CTERA Archive, bringing AI-driven recommendations and a governed workflow to a traditionally manual data lifecycle management process. CTERA Data Archiving Solution is part of the company’s flagship CTERA Intelligent Data Platform.
The CTERA Data Archiving Solution helps IT teams determine what data should be archived and how.
CTERA InsightAI uses agentic AI to infer what each file contains from its metadata—filename, path, extension, and directory context—and assess its value to the business, combining that understanding with age, type, size, and usage patterns to recommend which data can be archived.
With CTERA Archive, organizations can then move those files to a dedicated, isolated archival tier within the same CTERA environment, while maintaining control over retention and access, the vendor said.
Archived data can reside on lower-cost storage hardware or cloud services, providing a more economical alternative to keeping inactive information on primary storage. Because archived files stay within the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, they remain governed and accessible to AI and analytics without a separate retrieval or rehydration step, so cold data can be moved off primary storage without being taken out of reach.
Per CTERA, the CTERA Data Archiving Solution is designed to help organizations address four key challenges:
- Reduce storage costs: Identify inactive data consuming expensive primary storage and move it to a variety of lower-cost archival-class object storage targets.
- Simplify data lifecycle management: CTERA InsightAI agents infer file content and business significance from metadata, combining them with age, type, size, and usage patterns to surface archive candidates, removing the guesswork and manual effort involved in determining what to move.
- Maintain governance and compliance: CTERA Archive provides configurable retention policies and maintains an audit trail of archive and restore operations, including the operator, source, destination, reason, file count, size and timestamp.
- Lower data exposure and risk: Moving inactive data out of primary storage shrinks the amount of sensitive information exposed in file systems.
“Enterprise data volumes are going to continue to grow, but not all data needs to remain on primary storage or be immediately accessible. The challenge has always been knowing what data can safely move and then providing a practical path to execute that migration,” said Oded Nagel, CEO of CTERA. “By pairing CTERA InsightAI, which understands what data means to the business and not just how old it is, with the governance and controls of CTERA Archive, the CTERA Data Archiving Solution gives IT teams a much simpler, AI-guided way to bring discipline to the enterprise data lifecycle without sacrificing access. Archived data stays usable for AI and analytics rather than locked away.”
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