ACC solutions and experience enable enterprises to rapidly deploy storage as a service characterized by repeatable, automated provisioning that helps you deliver consistent, cost-effective storage services.

ACC storage and optimization management solutions are optimized for operational and business value, integrated for efficiency and automated for productivity. Our goal is to enable you to consolidate your storage infrastructure, aligning IT resources with business priorities.

• Increase utilization and decrease downtime, enhancing productivity
• Verify the availability of business applications, data protection, and resource utilization, helping improve the return on your storage investment
• Control and protect your growing data storage infrastructure

It is built on open standards, supporting heterogeneous storage environments with multiple operating platforms from a variety of vendors. Our solutions integrate within your environment to enhance your current IT investments and speed up both deployment and time to value.

The autonomic features offered by ACC Storage and Optimization Management solutions proactively protect data throughout your infrastructure while minimizing administrative workload, saving you time and money. Self-healing capabilities identify potential problems and execute policy-based actions to help prevent or resolve storage issues without the need for manual intervention. Self-configuring capabilities identify and load appropriate device drivers, while self-protecting capabilities automate back-up across heterogeneous environments.

ACC offers two software products: Cloud storage services and OpenStack cloud-in-a-box storage appliance to enable users and partners to build vendor-independent personal cloud solutions in order to ensure cloud data privacy and availability at the lowest possible cost – addressing the three most often-cited concerns professionals and businesses have about moving to the cloud.

Cloud storage services can access cloud storage from Amazon S3, Google Storage, Microsoft Azure, HP Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files, AT&T Synaptic and Nirvanix Storage, and/or private “cloud-in-a-box” storage from EMC Atmos, OpenStack or Meghaware.

As part of the solution, customers provision storage capacity on cloud which is safe, secured and has a dedicated storage on cloud.

The solution provides redundant, scalable object storage a distributed storage system for static data such as virtual machine images, photo storage, email storage, backups and archives. It provides greater scalability, redundancy and durability with the ACC storage appliance responsible for ensuring data replication and integrity.

ACC will provision storage on demand and monthly usage charges will be based on storage consumed.

The solution can be expandable. In future we can connect the appliance to store data on the other storage provider which offers storage on demand. Currently the solution supports Amazon S3, Google Storage, Microsoft Azure, HP Storage, Rackspace or Cloud Files.

Architecture 

The diagram above is the logical design of storage as services.

• Storage access appliances will be installed on user machines.
• Through the several apps available in appliances, users can access storage from Amazon S3.
• If needed, solutions can be extended to other on-demand storage providers as well as in-house storage.
• Given the high value of the data, we will recommend that we take the back-up of this storage at another Amazon S3 Zone.
• This back-up for DR is optional and will be priced and configured on-demand from TIS.

FEATURES

Object Storage Features

• You can write, read, and delete objects ranging from 1 byte to 5 terabytes of data each. You can store an unlimited amount of data.
• Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.
• A bucket can be stored in one of several regions. We have chosen the Asia-Pacific Singapore region to optimize for latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory requirements.
• Objects stored in a region never leave the region unless we transfer them out at the written request of TIS.
• Authentication mechanisms will be provided and integrated with client applications to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users.
• Options for secure data upload/download and encryption of data at rest are provided in the solution for additional data protection.
• Simple Storage uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any internet-development toolkit.

Storage Appliance Features

• Digital Locker: Transfer documents, audio files, pictures and video into your cloud accounts for universal access from any device.
• Data Protection: Backup selected files from TIS user devices into Simple Storage cloud accounts and will restore as needed or request by the user.
• Device Synchronization: This will synchronize data across devices and clouds on TIS user demand or on the creation of data by end-users.
• Content Unification: This will display files from selected user accounts in a single window with filtering.
• Communications: Seamlessly switch between using web-based IM/email communication and private communication apps for encrypted exchange of sensitive information no third-party servers used.
• Collaboration: TIS users can use this interface to invite users to their storage account workplace for collaboration. This is a very powerful feature and not available with any standard storage.
• Social Networking: Seamlessly switch between your public Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest and your own cloud storage account to socialize with invited friends. This stores all the transaction information in logs so that no sensitive information could be shared or leaked from the storage by a malicious user in the organization.
• Content Distribution: TIS users can use this to deliver encrypted multimedia content to their own department or community groups based on the invited subscribers.
• Security: All the files uploaded to the storage account will be encrypted.

ACC Managed Services

• Managing Storage Appliances Incidents
• Managing AWS S3 incidents
• Support for installing new Storage Appliances
• Monitoring latency and performance parameters
• DR Drills
• 24x7x365 remote monitoring and management
• Restores initiated within one hour
• Daily reporting and monthly face-to-face service reviews