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Actifio is a privately held information technology and software company that is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company's product, its Copy Data Storage Platform, is designed to make information technology infrastructure more efficient and cost effective by reducing the copies of computer data an organization must keep.

The company launched in November 2010 at Tech Field Day and has since raised a total of $108 million in venture capital funding from notable technology investors including Andreessen Horowitz, North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures. During the company’s most recent funding event – a $50 million Series D round – media reported that investors valued the company at $500 Million. The company is said to be planning an initial public offering (IPO) for 2014.

History

Actifio was founded by Ash Ashutosh, who had previously served as chief technologist at HP's StorageWorks division, a position he took after HP acquired another Ashutosh startup, AppIQ in 2005. After leaving HP in 2008, Ashutosh became a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, where he was an investor in information technology companies, and ultimately founded Actifio. He left Greylock in 2009 to focus full-time on Actifio, serving as its president and CEO.

Since launching its first product in the fall of 2011, Actifio has experienced rapid growth and has been described as history’s fastest growing storage startup. The company has received a number of awards including being named one of “America’s Most Promising Companies” by Forbes, and “Product of the Year” by Storage Magazine in the backup hardware category.

Products

Actifio's products work by dramatically reducing unnecessary duplication of application data while ensuring that it is still protected and easily accessible through its entire lifecycle. By virtualizing data management and storage Actifio's products can replace their client's siloed data protection and availability applications with a single purpose-built system. Actifio's products create a single "golden master" of production data and maintain changes to that master copy so that users running a simple, single window application can recover even large data sets in minutes.

Actifio claims its products can cut data management costs up to 90% and typically replace five to 13 separate pieces of software. The company touts ease of use as a key selling point and says that its products are a "pleasure to use" and are designed with "Apple-like simplicity." Pricing for Actifio products depends on the volume of data handled, with rates per-terabyte decreasing as volume increases. The company says that its clients get back about $15 in cost savings for every dollar spent on its products. TechValidate determined that Actifio's client's usually achieve 90% savings calculated on a total-cost-of-ownership basis.

Actifio Sky

Actifio Sky was announced in May of 2014. Actifio Sky is a software-only data virtualization platform that can be deployed as a virtual appliance on platforms such as VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Actifio-powered clouds. Actifio Sky uses patented Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) technology that makes it easier to move data to a central site in order to improve security, reliability, and analytics. Actifio Sky captures production data and replaces siloed data management applications with a simple, application-centric, SLA-driven approach. It helps manage captured data by creating a single “golden master.” This data can be used to make numerous virtual copies for ==Products== Actifio's products work by dramatically reducing unnecessary duplication of application data while ensuring that it is still protected and easily accessible through its entire lifecycle. By virtualizing data management and storage Actifio's products can replace their client's siloed data protection and availability applications with a single purpose-built system. Actifio's products create a single "golden master" of production data and maintain changes to that master copy so that users running a simple, single window application can recover even large data sets in minutes.

Actifio claims its products can cut data management costs up to 90% and typically replace five to 13 separate pieces of software. The company touts ease of use as a key selling point and says that its products are a "pleasure to use" and are designed with "Apple-like simplicity." Pricing for Actifio products depends on the volume of data handled, with rates per-terabyte decreasing as volume increases. The company says that its clients get back about $15 in cost savings for every dollar spent on its products. TechValidate determined that Actifio's client's usually achieve 90% savings calculated on a total-cost-of-ownership basis.

Actifio Sky

Actifio Sky was announced in May of 2014. Actifio Sky is a software-only data virtualization platform that can be deployed as a virtual appliance on platforms such as VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Actifio-powered clouds. Actifio Sky uses patented Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) technology that makes it easier to move data to a central site in order to improve security, reliability, and analytics. Actifio Sky captures production data and replaces siloed data management applications with a simple, application-centric, SLA-driven approach. It helps manage captured data by creating a single “golden master.” This data can be used to make numerous virtual copies for use anywhere desired. Actifio Sky is used for cloud-based deployments, inside data centers, and on remote office/branch office (ROBO) systems. Actifio Sky is used for cloud-based deployments, inside data centers, and on remote office/branch office (ROBO) systems.

Actifio Resiliency Director

Resiliency Director, an automated disaster recovery tool. With Resiliency Director, Actifio says "the disaster recovery process – from testing to actual execution - can be ... automated, the time spent on recovering large numbers of applications and virtual machines is collapsed from days to minutes." Sungard Availability Services, a disaster recovery firm, was able to recover hundreds of virtual machines in less than 20 minutes during a test of Resiliency Director. Actifio says that Resiliency Director is the "World's Fastest Cloud Business Continuity Solution."

Appliances

Actifio CDS

The Actifio CDS is a storage appliance that can scale to up to 2 petabytes of capacity. It is available in six standard configuration including most storage services, such as data lifecycle management, reduplication and backup replication, failover testing, and fallback automation. Options are available for Exchange, Sharepoint, and bare metal restoration.

Actifio 100T

The Actifio 100T is a storage appliance that can scale to up to 2 petabytes of capacity. It is available in six standard configurations including support for storage services such as data lifecycle management, reduplication and backup replication, failover testing, and fallback automation. Options are available for Exchange, Sharepoint, and bare metal recovery.

Actifio Gateway

The Actifio Gateway is an appliance with no native storage capacity that virtualizes capacity for various vendors into a single storage pool that can be scaled up to eight petabytes.

References

1. "The Perks of Waltham". Boston.com. January 4, 2013.
2. "Actifio 6.0 Copy Data Storage Platform Announced". StorageReview.com. August 19, 2013.
3. "Enterprise Sector Keeps Booming as Actifio Scores $500M Valuation". The Wall Street Journal. March 6, 2013.
4. "Eyeing an IPO, Waltham's Actifio takes aim at EMC". The Boston Globe. August 19, 2013.
5. "A Secret Storage Start-Up: ActiFio". Storage Newsletter. Retrieved January 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
6. "Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 4)". Sramana Mitra's One Million by One Million Blog. June 9, 2013.
7. "Actifio Launches No-Backup Data File System". eWeek. October 4, 2011.
8. "500% Growth Makes Actifio History's Swiftest Storage Start-up". Forbes.com. October 8, 2012.
9. "America's Most Promising Companies". Forbes.com. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
10. "Actifio PAS 5.0". TechTarget.com. February 2013.

External links

• http://actifio.com

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