Arkivio

About Arkivio

Arkivio, a software solution operating under the Rocket Software umbrella, provides integrated storage management for unstructured data. The company was originally founded in December 2000 by four former executives from Creative Design Solutions, a network-attached storage company. In early 2008, Rocket Software acquired the assets of Arkivio, a privately held information lifecycle management (ILM) software maker, for an undisclosed amount. The Arkivio products were then integrated into Rocket Software's Servergraph data archiving unit.

The firm's core business revolves around addressing the challenges posed by the rapid growth of unstructured data such as documents, presentations, photos, and videos. Arkivio's software enables clients to implement tiered storage, optimize backups, conduct file system reporting, and archive data. The business model appears to be software licensing, as customers can purchase licenses for the product and its various modules, like the Autostor Action Module. The target market includes companies, particularly those in regulated industries like finance and insurance, that handle petabytes of storage and billions of files.

The product, branded as Rocket® Arkivio, offers a suite of tools for intelligent data management. Key features include agentless data collection, data and storage classification, comprehensive reporting, and automated data management actions such as migrating, moving, copying, and deleting files based on user-defined policies. This allows storage administrators to free up valuable primary storage, reduce the amount of data needing backup, and better utilize their existing storage infrastructure. The software operates in heterogeneous environments, meaning it can manage data across different platforms like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Dell EMC systems. It provides a web-based management console with customizable dashboards and reports, giving administrators visibility into their storage environments to manage capacity and mitigate risks.