Adding cloud storage to your infrastructure isn’t always as straightforward as it seems. Minimizing the performance impact on file access and controlling bandwidth costs are major challenges. You also need to make sure you don’t store the wrong files in the cloud—or the right files with the wrong level of security.
F5 ARX Cloud Extender works with ARX to seamlessly extend your file storage infrastructure from the data center to the cloud. Your organization will reap all the benefits of cloud storage without any of the pain.
Easily integrate cloud storage
ARX aggregates the total available capacity of your physical storage devices into a single virtual pool. With ARX Cloud Extender, that virtual pool includes capacity from both private cloud storage solutions and public cloud storage providers.
- Automate the identification and migration of appropriate files to the cloud.
- Maintain files in local and cloud-based storage without your users experiencing any difference in access.
Tier appropriate files to the cloud
ARX Cloud Extender helps you tier the right files to the cloud. Define the files you want in the cloud based on attributes such as file type or access frequency, and then customize your tiering policies to make it so. ARX automates the process, migrating the data transparently to users.
- Ensure that sensitive business data is stored locally, not on the public cloud.
- Optimize performance by tiering only inactive data to the cloud.
Simplify file access
Most enterprise organizations access file data through standard file sharing protocols such as CIFS and NFS. But cloud storage providers use proprietary APIs to deliver storage capacity. ARX Cloud Extender translates file access between your native CIFS or NFS protocol and the cloud API, so user access is as seamless as accessing a file stored on a local hard drive.
Secure data in the cloud
Store your files in the cloud with confidence. ARX Cloud Extender encrypts all files tiered to a public cloud using AES-256, so your data is secure both in flight and at rest. And with the local CIFS or NFS file system that ARX Cloud Extender provides, you maintain access control over files tiered to the cloud.
Maximize cost savings from cloud storage
Cloud storage can decrease your capital and operational costs, but only if you do it right. ARX and ARX Cloud Extender ensure that you tier the right files to the cloud. By moving less frequently accessed files to the cloud, you can:
- Reclaim valuable Tier 1 capacity for high-value files.
- Minimize the bandwidth costs of accessing files stored in a public cloud.
- Reduce your storage overhead.
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