Clearpace RainStor Supports Queries

June 11, 2009

A happy quack to the reader in Australia who alerted me to an outfit called Clearpace Software. According the the company’s Web site, Clearpace is

a software company that provides data archive store solutions for the long-term retention of structured data within the enterprise. Clearpace has become a pioneer in the database archiving market by providing archive stores that are the optimal destination for inactive data that has been removed from production systems. The Clearpace NParchive software enables organizations with large and growing data estates to massively reduce the cost and complexity of storing historical information while making archived data easily accessible for regulatory, legal and business purposes. Using NParchive, companies are able to store as much as 60x more historical information on commodity hardware.

The angle that interested me was that Clearpace includes a query tool with its system. The idea is that a Clearpace client can search the data in the Clearpace RainStor archive. Here’s what the company says about the Rainstor cloud storage service:

RainStor is a cloud-based archiving service for simply, securely and cost-effectively preserving historical structured data. The RainStor archive service enables companies to send an unlimited amount of inactive data from databases or event logs to a hosted storage platform where it can be retained and searched on demand. RainStor compresses data by 40x before transferring encrypted data files to the cloud, providing rapid load times and reduced storage cost, while also supporting full SQL access to the archived data files using industry standard reporting tools and interfaces. RainStor is delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis, leveraging cloud infrastructure. The RainStor cloud archive service requires no upfront investment offering a pay-as-you-use model based on the volume of raw data that is sent to the cloud. Rainstor is provided as a service by Clearpace Software.

You can read the company’s news release here.

I don’t have too much information about the search function. My questions will focus on latency and the user interface.

Stay tuned.

Stephen Arnold, June 11, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Cloud computing, News, Search, Technology

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