Christian Frank

SmApper Technologies' vision is to deliver automatic and intelligent file management across all tiers of storage from SSD to cloud to ensure that data is in the right place at the right time to optimize both cost and performance. The challenge is to provide optimization without adding complexity. SmApper is developing new 'Data Mobility' technology to address this challenge that automatically manages where the data is placed on storage using data intelligence. Data Mobility delivers business value by enabling policy-based data movement, while masking and automating the complexities of data migration regardless of storage platform. It matches the vision of many organizations to disaggregate servers and storage and interconnect them via multiple interoperating networks. Today SmApper's products provide automated storage tiring for dramatic cost reductions in large enterprises. SmApper's next generation Data Mobility technology will deliver automatic and intelligent file management across all tiers of storage from SSD to cloud for both performance and cost. The company has assembled a management team and board of seasoned storage visionaries and experts to bring the next generation Data Mobility solutions to market.

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