W. Curtis Preston interviews Andrew Gilman, Sr. Director of Global Marketing for Actifio, and John Meyers, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Technology at Boston University, at SNW 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. Actifio allows the user to manage copies of their data and offload it to places where it can be most efficiently handled. Boston University, one of Actifio's customers, uses Actifio's product to solve the problems of data explosions that arise from processes such as genome sequencing. There are two types of data that result from this explosion: production data (which grows linearly) and copy data (which grows exponentially). Actifio examines the various types of silos and virtualizes them into PAS (Protection and Availability Storage). It can virtualize, compress, dedupe, and push the data to a bucket on the DR side. The product allowed the university to save money on hardware and software that ended up not needing to be purchased at all.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• Andrew Gilman
• Actifio
• John Meyers
• Storage Networking World
• PAS