Storage as a Service (STaaS) helps organisations to opt for immensely scalable, highly cost-effective and fully managed cloud storage services. STaaS on Harbour1^® offers a secured, reliable and scalable framework for storing and retrieving data from web applications, mobile applications, Big Data and IoT applications. Harbour1^® provides Software Defined Storage (SDS) to enterprise customers with highly available and on-demand elastic storage. Availed storage can be used for, backup and archiving, disaster recovery, cloud bursting, storage tiering, and migration.

Key Features

• Scalability to hundreds of terabytes (TB) per storage volume
• Customized replicated copies of customer's critical data
• Consistent performance and throughput of data
• Choose from Flash/SSD/SATA/SAS storage pools
• API based access to object storage
• n+n redundant data copies to ensure availability
• Storage gateways connect to the underlying SDS in a secured manner

Block Storage

• Block storage volumes, which are attached to virtual servers, are easily manageable from Harbour1^®
• Features such as snapshot and resizing, are available for block volumes
• Block storage volume can be retained even after deleting the virtual server
• Storage devices are interchangeable between different servers

Object Storage

• Simple and flexible transfer of data
• Scalability (upto PBs) and distributed access
• Object storage with Harbour1^® supports custom metadata
• Easy access to storage, from anywhere, at any time, to any device

Benefits of STaaS on Harbour1^®

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  Redundancy, present at the virtual layers of Harbour1^®, supports customized storage pool configurations and saves n+n copies of data on high availability

  High Redundancy

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  Self-service provisioning offers active controls and monitoring opportunities, that enable enterprises with real-time administration of Big Data and IoT applications

  Ease of Access

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  Enhanced security with encryption and authentication of customer's data, by leveraging built-in data protection through snapshots, cloning & remote mirroring

  Security

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  SDS supports object storage and block storage, backed by a selection of dedicated SATA, SAS and SSD drives, thereby enabling scalability to hundreds of TBs per storage volume

  Scalability

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  Harbour1^® supports long-term digital data archival and vaulting services, thereby supporting the compliance and regulatory requirements of enterprises

  Archival