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Palo Alto, CA – 02 December, 2018 – Moonwalk Universal, a specialist in large-scale data management solutions, today announced certification for Cloudian HyperStore.
Cloudian HyperStore lets users grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes and leveraging the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API. Whether for on-premises storage, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud storage services, Cloudian HyperStore saves time, saves cost, and puts users in control.
With the latest release, Moonwalk version 12.3 brings file control and automation to enterprise storage infrastructure and intelligently moves file content to the appropriate location – on-premise object stores, offsite storage or cloud services.
Moonwalk slashes storage TCO, reduces complexity and optimizes storage resource utilization. The software’s dynamic workload placement moves file content according to user, size, name and age – storing data at the right place at the right time.
Along with its most advanced software yet, Moonwalk has also introduced its most affordable: Moonwalk Starter Edition, available free for up to 25 TB, including the Cloudian HyperStore plugin.
“Moonwalk manages data growth that cannot be resolved with traditional data management products that introduce layers of inefficiency, vendor lock-in, or added complexity,” said Michael Harvey, co-founder and Vice President of Business Development at Moonwalk. “We are delighted to offer the Cloudian HyperStore plugin as part of our free Starter Edition.”
“IT managers need simple, easily scaled solutions to help manage the avalanche of unstructured data growth,” said Jon Toor, CMO of Cloudian. “The combination of Moonwalk and Cloudian gives customers both a powerful management layer plus a limitlessly-scalable storage layer that provides a proven, cost-effective platform today while growing seamlessly to meet the needs of tomorrow.”
Moonwalk Starter Edition is available here.
About Cloudian
Cloudian turns information into insight with an infinitely scalable platform that consolidates, manages and protects enterprise data. Cloudian data management solutions bring cloud technology and economics to the data center with uncompromising data durability, intuitive management tools, and the industry’s most compatible S3 API. Cloudian and its ecosystem partners help Global 1000 customers simplify unstructured data management today, while preparing for the data demands of AI and machine learning tomorrow.
About Moonwalk Universal
Moonwalk Universal develops all-inclusive data management and protection software for major operating systems, storage platforms and the cloud. Moonwalk is found in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries. For more information visit https://www.moonwalkinc.com.
Palo Alto, CA – March 03, 2018 – Moonwalk Universal, a specialist in large-scale data management solutions, today announced the the launch of Moonwalk 11.5. This major release extends the footprint of supported platforms and advanced file system features.
Enhanced Support for Microsoft ReFS and DFS-R
Enhanced Support for Microsoft ReFS DFS-R further extends the portfolio of Microsoft file system and advanced file server capabilities available to Moonwalk customers. Up to now, organizations using ReFS and DFS-R have found a very limited number of data management solutions that will fully support these technologies.
Enhanced S3 Transfer Acceleration and Infrequent Access Storage Class
Moonwalk continues to support and enhance the object storage services offered by Amazon Web Services. With new support for S3 Transfer Acceleration, Moonwalk customers can enjoy greater performance when writing datasets to AWS S3 and S3RR.
Moonwalk’s enhanced support for S3 Infrequent Access Storage means customers can save even more on their storage cost by automatically moving their cold S3 datasets to less expensive S3 buckets.
Moonwalk remains a game changing solution; particularly for larger enterprises needed to optimize their storage costs, but wish to avoid the ongoing burden of an additional layer of technology required to implement a data management framework.
About Moonwalk
Moonwalk develops the all-inclusive data management and protection software for major operating systems, storage platforms and the cloud. Moonwalk can be found in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries.
Palo Alto, CA – September 24, 2017 – Moonwalk Universal, a specialist in large-scale data management solutions, today announced Storage Tiering for Amazon Web Services’ EC2, further extending its commitment to cloud support and capability enhancement.
"Customers have been using the power of Moonwalk to tier their unstructured data from on-premises Primary Storage to AWS EC2 and S3" said Michael Harvey, VP of Business Development, Moonwalk. "Now, EC2 users can seamlessly and automatically tier older or less important files from their attached AWS Elastic Block Storage volumes to much less expensive and far more scalable S3 and S3 reduced redundancy."
“Moonwalk's patented, award-winning technology requires no databases, no indexes and no middleware of any kind, giving our customers massive scale-out capability. With Moonwalk, migrated files will still appear to exist on the EC2 Host-attached EBS volume, when in fact the content is stored on S3. When users or applications attempt to read these files, the content is immediately and automatically streamed back over Amazon's network. This strategy greatly reduces the cost of cloud storage while increasing the storage addressability of EBS volumes, saving time, reducing complexity and reducing costs", he said.
Moonwalk delivers file control and automation to enterprise storage infrastructure, intelligently mobilizing files and objects – supporting on-premise file servers or object stores, offsite storage or cloud services – to drive more value from existing assets, to slash storage TCO, reduce complexity, enforce corporate governance and more.
Moonwalk’s patented capabilities manage files and objects according to project, location, user, size, name, age. A feature-rich REST API is available for advanced customer integration and third-party system support.
Benefits of Moonwalk include:
About Moonwalk Universal
Moonwalk Universal develops all-inclusive data insight, management and mobility software for major operating systems, storage platforms, object stores and the cloud. Moonwalk’s technology is found in large organizations spanning banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries. For more information visit https://www.moonwalkinc.com.
January 10, 2017– With the launch of its latest release, Moonwalk Universal announces enhanced support for NetApp Cluster Mode.
A powerful new capability of Moonwalk is support for NetApp ONTAP 8 cluster mode. This is big news to the NetApp user community, many of whom require data management capabilities across both ONTAP 7 and ONTAP 8 cluster mode.
The cluster mode release will ensure that NetApp customers continue to maximize the return on investment in their platform of choice by effectively managing those ever increasing amounts of data residing on their NetApp infrastructure.
As a leading storage platform, NetApp platforms are widely used in the most rigorous data environments by some of the world’s largest organizations. Moonwalk’s stateless architecture and native NetApp integration provide such customers a massive scale-out, virtually unlimited solution for managing their unstructured datasets.
Moonwalk archive operations significantly reduce the amount of primary storage as datasets are automatically and transparently archived to tiers of less-expensive storage for longer retention.
Moonwalk is a game changing solution, particularly for large customers that need to take charge of the data management issue, but at the same time, are reluctant to be lumbered with that ongoing burden of an additional layer of technology required to implement a data management framework.
Moonwalk delivers file control and automation to enterprise storage infrastructure, intelligently mobilizing files and objects – supporting on-premise file servers or object stores, offsite storage or cloud services – to drive more value from existing assets, to slash storage TCO, reduce complexity, enforce corporate governance and more.
Moonwalk’s patented capabilities manage files and objects according to project, location, user, size, name, age. A feature-rich REST API is available for advanced customer integration and third-party system support.
About Moonwalk Universal
Moonwalk Universal develops all-inclusive data insight, management and mobility software for major operating systems, storage platforms, object stores and the cloud. Moonwalk’s technology is found in large organizations spanning banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries. For more information visit https://www.moonwalkinc.com.
FREMONT, CA— October 15, 2015—CIOReview (www.cioreview.com) has chosen Moonwalk (www.moonwalkinc.com) for its 20 Most Promising NetApp Solution Providers 2015. The positioning is based on the evaluation of Moonwalk‘s ability in automating and intelligently managing the migration of unstructured data from NetApp Filers to additional tiers within the storage infrastructure.
Its stateless architecture and native NetApp integration provides NetApp customers a massive scale-out, virtually unlimited solution for managing their unstructured datasets. Moonwalk 9.3 support for NetApp ONTAP 8 cluster mode is good news for the NetApp user community, many of whom require data management capabilities across both ONTAP 7 and ONTAP 8 cluster mode.
The annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIOReview’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship. “Moonwalk has been on our radar for some time for stirring a revolution in the NetApp space, and we are happy to showcase them this year due to their continuing excellence in delivering top-notch NetApp solutions,” said Jeevan George, Managing Editor, CIOReview. “Moonwalk’s solutions continued to break new ground within the past year, benefiting its customers around the globe, and we’re excited to have them featured on our top companies list.”
“Moonwalk is honored to be recognized by CIOReview’s panel of experts and thought leaders,” said Peter Harvey, CEO, Moonwalk.
About Moonwalk
Moonwalk is a privately owned company specializing in large-scale data management solutions. Moonwalk is used across the world by major organizations covering a range of industry sectors including Banking, Healthcare, Government, Research and Development, Education and Resources.
About CIOReview
CIOReview constantly endeavors to identify “The Best” in a variety of areas important to tech business. Through nominations and consultations with industry leaders, our editors choose the best in different domains. The NetApp Special Edition is an annual listing of 20 Most Promising NetApp Solution Providers in the U.S.
Knowledgebase Article | January 15, 2018
In light of the current growth rate of data and the challenge associated with storing, managing and preserving unstructured files, the discussion regarding provisioning of storage and file management can become blurred.
For example, when someone states that their organization has 1000 Terabytes of data that needs to be stored and managed, the prevailing thinking has often centered upon the need to have 1000 Terabytes of files residing in some kind of active storage array – and of course with all the associated costs of doing so.
On further examination of usage patterns, however, the actual requirement is often very different. If one can believe the statistics being presented by the various analysts, only a very small percentage of the data is actually ever used again after the initial creation. The numbers consistently being presented suggest that the ‘small percentage’ is somewhere around 15% of files.
From analyses carried out in various customer sites over a number of years we would suggest that in many cases, even the number of 15% could be somewhat of an over statement, however, let’s assume that is the case.
Of course, the catch with data management is that various compliance laws and business policies dictate that much of the dataset cannot be deleted for years, decades or even forever (whatever that means) – so deletion is usually out of the question.
Returning to our 1000 Terabyte example, these statistics would suggest that the primary storage needs to cater for significantly less than 1000 Terabytes, and that a multi-tiered storage environment is a cost effective and intelligent approach to meet both the operational and archive needs of the organization – and key components for the execution of a multi-tiered storage environment are the data mover, or HSM, and the Object Store.
The advent of the Object Store has revolutionized the business of multi-tiered storage, with the well implemented Object Store providing the necessary accessibility, scalability and data security at a fraction of the cost using the more traditional approach.
In like manner, Moonwalk has revolutionized the business of HSM.
With sheer volume of new data, the existing HSM products are being pushed to breaking point due to underlying architectures that require significant amounts of enabling middleware.
Moonwalk requires no such introduced technology layer. It delivers immediate cost benefits due to its ease of implementation and operation, and perhaps most importantly, Moonwalk scales to meet your ongoing data demands – whatever the future holds.
The various flavors of the Moonwalk/Object Store solution are being rolled out globally across a wide range of user types, including Police/Security, Engineering, Government, Research, Resource Services and Education.
To learn more contact us today at www.moonwalkinc.com
Customer Success Story | April 03, 2017
Aurecon – A Global Engineering Company
Aurecon provides engineering, advisory and project management services for public and private sector clients globally. With a history dating back to 1932, Aurecon has an operations network extending across twenty six countries and has been involved in projects in over eighty countries across Africa, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Americas. Aurecon employs around 7,500 people over 11 industry groups.
The Challenge: Managing Project Data in a Geographically Distributed Organisation
Aurecon generates a large amount of unstructured data ranging from Microsoft Office and project management style documentation through to engineering design files and large 2D/3D modelling data sets. Being a project oriented organisation means that Aurecon needed to adopt a varied approach to data lifecycle management.
There is also a major compliance factor particularly in the area of contract, design and drawing where the data needs to be kept ‘in perpetuity’ to varying degrees depending upon contract and legislative requirements.
With two main data centres and a geographically distributed office network, keeping this data distributed throughout the offices makes the effective management of these data sets a very expensive challenge, particularly with respect to both production storage and backup media.The existing storage environment is predominantly EMC including SAN and CENTERA Object Store devices.
Addressing the Problem
“Having recently performed a storage refresh, we were able to define a cost per MB on our production, archive, DR, and backup data sources” said Greg Walker, Manager, Design & Infrastructure.” Then, by using Moonwalk initially to analyse the unstructured data, we were able to determine several things. Firstly, we were able to plot the exponential growth rate of data over the next five years with a degree of confidence. Secondly we could see that more than 50% of our current data was more than two years old – and suitable for immediate archive using Moonwalk. A sound understanding of data holdings is key to determining the best way forward and most importantly, to determine the Return on Investment to be achieved through implementation of a data management solution.
Greg continues, “Using these statistics allowed us to calculate that the cost of moving the data that was older than two years to the cheaper archive storage tier would only cost 30% of what it would be to leave that data on the production storage and cater for the ongoing backup of that data. In fact, this showed a Return on Investment in approximately 18 months across the storage tiers.”
The Selection Process
Aurecon invested time and effort in the selection process. Using a detailed specification requirement the company entered into an evaluation process across a number of products. This process involved running the various products in a Proof of Concept environment to test how the software behaved and to confirm suitability.
“Most of these products were not able to natively cater for the cross referenced drawing files and documents that are core to our business” said Greg.
There are significant advantages attached to the unique architecture of Moonwalk. Greg continues, “Moonwalk has a very light weight footprint. We were able to complete the design, the implementation, and transition as a live operational service within a few weeks.”
Moonwalk – An Enterprise Data Management Platform that just “Loads and Goes”
Aurecon Melbourne moved to its new building, the Aurecon Centre in the Docklands. Prior to the move, they decided to use this office as the Moonwalk pilot site and perform stress testing in the hope that this would mean less data for the Infrastructure Team to physically relocate when relocating the office.
“We moved about 12TB down the primary WAN link in an initial four-week period, but it took us a little while to understand how to really utilize the link size,” says Greg. “We learnt quite a bit in that time about tuning the Moonwalk software to find the sweet spot.”
Moonwalk can be tuned to take the most effective utilization of the network and/or to work most cooperatively with other users’ application software.
As Greg says “Obviously you want to push as much Moonwalk data down your link as you can but you don’t want to negatively affect other traffic on that link, so we spent some time with getting the balance correct. “Then over that quiet period Christmas provides us, we deployed Moonwalk to all remaining sites. We learnt how to really ‘smash’ our WAN links and were able to ingest over 90TB of data in to our Centera Archive Storage.
“Data is now archived on a continuing basis according to Aurecon’s data management policies”.
Moonwalk from an Operational Perspective
Given Aurecon’s global footprint there is quite a variety in WAN link sizes and eligible data for archiving across the various sites. According to Greg, “The beauty of Moonwalk is that once you have tuned the ‘walkers’ to the sweet spot for that link size/utilization, it’s almost a case of set and forget.
“Staff impact is negligible.
We will occasionally see some delay in retrieving large files over distant and small links but we have strategies for effectively managing this.
“All Moonwalk traffic is encrypted. Whilst this is a fundamental requirement to ensure data security and integrity, it also bypasses the WAN acceleration infrastructure. The Moonwalk team will be working with us to see how we might address this and achieve maximum possible throughput across our WAN infrastructure.
“From an overall data management perspective, we have far greater visibility on the file server data now. It no longer feels like the elephant in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.”
December 15, 2016 – Moonwalk Universal announces the launch of Moonwalk 11.0. This major release extends the footprint of supported platforms and advanced file system features.
Support for Microsoft ReFS and DFS-R
Support for Microsoft ReFS DFS-R further extends the portfolio of Microsoft file system and advanced file server capabilities available to Moonwalk customers. Up to now, organizations using ReFS and DFS-R have found a very limited number of data management solutions that will fully support these technologies.
These new features complete the Moonwalk offering for users with a strategic commitment to a Microsoft ecosystem and provides all customers with wider platform options when evaluating their advanced file system options.
S3 Transfer Acceleration and Infrequent Access Storage Class
Moonwalk continues to support and enhance the object storage services offered by Amazon Web Services. With new support for S3 Transfer Acceleration, Moonwalk customers can enjoy greater performance when writing datasets to AWS S3 and S3RR.
Moonwalk’s new support for S3 Infrequent Access Storage means customers can save even more on their storage cost by automatically moving their cold S3 datasets to less expensive S3 buckets.
Moonwalk remains a game changing solution; particularly for larger enterprises needed to optimize their storage costs, but wish to avoid the ongoing burden of an additional layer of technology required to implement a data management framework.
Contact us today to see how Moonwalk can work for you.
About Moonwalk
Moonwalk develops the all-inclusive data management and protection software for major operating systems, storage platforms and the cloud. Moonwalk can be found in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries.
Palo Alto, CA – March 12, 2015 – SEP Software Corp., a leading backup and disaster recovery provider, has extended its offering to a range of cloud and object storage options harnessing the power of Moonwalk data management technology.
Using Moonwalk as a Cloud Gateway for SEP sesam, the backup data can be written to a range of platforms including S3, HDS HCP, EMC Centera, HP OpenStack and Caringo Swarm.
According to Tim Wagner, President of SEP Software Corp., “SEP and Moonwalk work well together in customer environments and SEP sesam adheres to all extended attributes of supported file systems including Novell OES. It is a natural progression to bring the two technologies together to offer this broader solution.”
This new solution, jointly developed with our Partner, Storsys, offers a powerful and cost-effective alternative to what is currently available in the market.
About Moonwalk
Moonwalk is a privately owned company specializing in large-scale data management solutions. Moonwalk is used across the world by major organizations covering a range of industry sectors including Banking, Healthcare, Government, Research and Development, Education and Resources.
Palo Alto, CA – September 22, 2018 – Moonwalk Universal, a specialist in large-scale data management solutions, today announced the latest release of its award-winning data management software to solve file server bloat, automate storage optimization and archive for massive data volumes -supporting environments with multiple petabytes and trillions of files.
Moonwalk brings file control and automation to enterprise storage infrastructure, intelligently migrating files to the appropriate tier – on-premise file servers or object stores, offsite storage or cloud services – to slash storage TCO, reduce complexity, optimize resource use, enforce corporate governance and more. Moonwalk’s unique capabilities manage files according to project, location, user, size, name, age. A REST API is available for advanced customer integration.
The new software includes comprehensive integration and support for the latest file systems and servers, cloud and object stores, including Windows Server 2016, NetApp 9.1 and OES2015, Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud, Hitachi HCP, Dell EMC ECS, IBM Bluemix/COS, IBM Spectrum Scale, Scality RING, Concurrent Aquari, Caringo Swarm and Cloudian HyperStore.
Moonwalk Starter Edition, available free for up to 25 TB of managed data, continues to be expanded with new features and platforms. As with the full edition, Moonwalk Starter automates file mobility from expensive primary storage and bloated NAS systems to lower-cost storage within the network or cloud services, without impacting applications or end users.
“The latest Moonwalk software conquers sprawling infrastructure and sprawling file growth that cannot be resolved with traditional data management tools that introduce layers of inefficiency, vendor lock-in, or added complexity,” said Michael Harvey, co-founder and vice president of business development at Moonwalk. “We’re confident users will see its value so we are offering a free edition to recruit customers with smaller data footprints who want to adopt good data management habits now, before file data spirals out of control, or those who want to try the software in their environment before committing.”
Benefits of Moonwalk include:
Out-of-the-box support for all major cloud and object stores
Reduced storage cost of ownership up to 80 percent
Reduced size of production file system volumes up to 90 percent
Zero middleware; zero single points of failure
No limits on file count
Reporting and analytics for continued optimization and improvement
Moonwalk can be purchased directly or from Moonwalk’s global network of partners. Moonwalk Starter Edition is available here.
About Moonwalk Universal
Moonwalk Universal develops all-inclusive data management and protection software for major operating systems, storage platforms and the cloud. Moonwalk is found in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, government, research and other key industries. For more information visit https://www.moonwalkinc.com.