How the Future of Data Storage Will Stack Up

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Actifio could be defined as a storage service aimed at managing “copy data” constructs. We might even think of something like Maginatics’ MagFS as delivering “file system” constructs where the primary client is provisioning file systems (“file systems as a service”), rather than end users accessing files.

In all those cases, the storage solution is application-aware. It has intimate knowledge of the application construct and can provide improved management, performance and efficiencies over application-blind storage.

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