Flexify.IO offers cloud storage virtualization and migration software, which provides customers cloud-agnostic object-based data storage. In addition, it enables and streamlines migration and avoids dependency on a single cloud storage provider.
The concept is simple. An application reads/writes data from/to a virtual S3 bucket. Further, the original data is stored in a physical bucket in any of more than 20 storage locations, including Microsoft Azure Blob, Backblaze B2, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, Dataline, Dell EMC ECS, DigitalOcean, Dropbox, Exoscale, Google Cloud, Linode, Mail.ru Cloud, MinIO, OVH, Wasabi, and Yandex Cloud.
Flexify’s software identifies the physical storage location and carries out API-based storage IO using connector modules to address the read and write requests. However, file or block storage is not supported.
Data migration between these cloud service providers (CSPs) and on-premises storage locations, avoiding CSP lock-in, can effectively occur. Specifically, Flexify visibly converts the S3 API to the Azure Blob API, and thus, there is no need to convert S3-compatible applications to the applications that are Azure Blob-compatible. It likewise translates between the S3-compatible API and Alibaba OSS APIs.
Further, data can be divided across multiple locations and presented as a single (virtual) bucket. In addition, the data migration can also take place between these locations, with Flexify’s code addressing the errors and avoiding downtime during a migration. Multiple Flexify instances (stateless engines) can be utilized in a migration procedure with a supposed slot-based distribution system that quickens the data transfer process.
There are no egress fees are payable under the following conditions:
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Migrating from Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon S3 region on the same continent;
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Migrating from Amazon Web Services or GCP to Azure region on the same continent;
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Migrating from Azure, GCP, or Amazon Web Services of North American regions to Backblaze B2 US/ European regions to Backblaze B2 EU;
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Migrating from Amazon Web Services S3 US- regions to Backblaze B2 US or from Amazon S3 EU- provinces to Backblaze B2 EU;
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Migrating from Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services to the GCP region on the same continent.
Management console
Flexify offers a management console that includes a migration wizard. In addition, the speed of data access speed is improved by an asynchronous transfer design. In this design, the object access starts before Flexify has fetched a whole object. The company says: “With appropriate regions configuration, you can expect a delay lesser than a few milliseconds.”Flexify.io is a multi-user management console, which supports customers who want to manage multiple departments and users on Flexify.IO through a centralized administrator.
Flexify.IO is available as a cloud service managed by Flexify. Further, it can be installed privately in a customer’s cloud or on-premises. The cloud-native Flexify app is available in the Azure and Digital Ocean marketplaces. Additionally, a Community Edition can be downloaded from the Docker Hub. The Community Edition is not scalable and is limited to a single machine. On the other hand, the core edition is horizontally scalable, with centralized management of geographically spread engines.
About Flexify
Flexify.IO was established in June 2015 by CTO Sergey Kandaurov and Corporate President & CEO Sergey Smirnov in Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhegorod, Russian Federation. It upstretched an undisclosed amount of funding in May 2018. It has an office in St Petersburg, Florida, and the head of development, Alexander Bondin, is located in Novgorod, Russia, and Kandaurov is based in the Philippines. Flexify’s future development plans include adding support for smaller cloud providers, storage of unstructured data in blockchain, and addressing near-real-time continuous synchronisation of two or more data stores.