The article by senior writer Chris Preimesberger highlighted industry-changing, or “disruptive,” storage technologies that businesses can employ to obtain a significant competitive advantage. Moonwalk was included as a disrupter in the tiered SAN storage systems sector for not needing middleware in its node agent-oriented software. Moonwalk’s software automates and proactively manages the migration, copying and movement of data transparently through the enterprise.

“If when eWeek calls our Moonwalk software a disruptive storage technology they mean one that helps centrally manage data across the enterprise, reduce primary storage by 90 percent and slash back up time and costs, then, yes, I’d say we can be considered a disruptive technology,” said Peter Harvey, CEO of Moonwalk. “By helping to migrate data transparently and without the need for middleware, we have simplified the storage process for administrators who need relief from traditional approaches. As such, it is our pleasure to be named among the disruptive storage technologies by eWeek magazine.”

Moonwalk software delivers data management with metadata-level precision for all information on network storage, servers and clients. It proactively migrates, copies and moves data according to user-defined rules and policies based on criteria such as age, size, file type, file name, file creator and many more granular classification rules. Moonwalk operates across and between all major file systems, including Windows, UNIX, Linux and Netware environments, and all primary and secondary storage environments. Its stateless architecture requires no additional overhead and is completely transparent to users and applications, with no introduced points of potential failure to ensuring maximum performance and availability. With Moonwalk, applying even one simple rule of moving all files one year or older onto secondary storage can result in an immediate halving in primary storage; applying additional rules typically results in significantly higher capacity savings in some cases in the order of 90 percent.

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