Datrium’s Automatrix platform provides
a sure path to IT transformation for
enterprises so that their IT organisations
can become more strategic and meet
the business requirement for instant user
outcomes in the on-demand economy.
Datrium has also announced its vision for
IT transformation and findings from original
research on the State of IT Transformation.
To manage data across its lifecycle,
IT has to deal with five data services:
primary storage, backup, DR, encryption
and mobility. When these functions live
in separate products, it slows everything
down and adds operating friction,
presenting core problems that inhibit
Digital Transformation:
• • Product sprawl has negative effects
on cost, SLAs, risk management and
business agility
• • Workload immobility hampers
agility because each of these five
legacy products are land-locked and
unable to move easily to the cloud.
Without converged data services that
are consistent across clouds, multi-
cloud workload portability is simply
not practical.
• • Siloed data management (i.e., when
data is in separate data service silos)
makes data difficult to govern, secure,
audit, analyse, search and makes it hard
to plan for growth.
Datrium Automatrix incorporates the five
data services of computing workloads in a
single unified data platform across clouds
to deliver the following key benefits:
• • Consistent experience on-
premises or cloud: By unifying
and automating data services with a
multi-cloud platform, enterprises have
a much simpler and more efficient
infrastructure to operate and much
more fluid workload portability across
clouds with a consistent experience.
This is complemented by the Datrium
Forward software subscription model,
which enables the platform licensing
itself to be portable.
• • Cost-efficient multicloud workload
portability: Autonomous data services
that are intelligent and always-on
(self-optimisation, self-protection,
continuous data verification,
continuous compliance checks, end-
to-end encryption and more) minimise
switching costs in moving workloads
across clouds.
• • Liberation from overhead operating
tasks: Automatrix’s cloud-first design
enables the next level of consolidation
of workloads and automation of day
to day operating tasks by using SaaS
and software-defined converged
infrastructure to simplify operations.
“In a world that’s always on, enterprises
struggle to meet their IT transformation
objectives with solutions that lack the
performance to run demanding modern
workloads. They need automation to
lighten the burden IT managers face with
managing unprecedented data growth and
Tim Page, CEO at Datrium
data centre complexity,” said Tim Page,
CEO at Datrium.
“Instead of bolting on missing storage
services like other vendors attempt to
do in the race to the data plane – for
example, primary storage vendors adding
backup after the fact or vice versa – we
approached the problem holistically from
the start by building in all five functions
necessary to run applications fast,
maintain up-time and keep data safe,
on premises or across multiple clouds.
Automatrix is the culmination of our
work to develop the first autonomous,
multi-cloud data platform. It consolidates
data, automates data management and
brings the services to the data, instead
of bringing the data to the services,
creating new levels of efficiency and
data availability that help enterprises to
simplify and transform their IT.” ◊
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