Transitions from paper, film and analog record storage to digital storage continue to accelerate in all sectors - government, healthcare, energy, media, manufacturing, financial services. These transitions have resulted in exponential growth in the volume of reference data (documents, images, and audio/video) that must be stored, protected and preserved for long periods of time. This rapid data growth is driving the need for massive data archiving solutions across the enterprise and within the data center.

Bycast ® is the leading provider of advanced storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives. Bycast’s market leadership is illustrated by a global customer base, a vibrant application partner ecosystem, and strategic partnerships with industry-leading storage vendors IBM and HP. Bycast StorageGRID is unique in that it is proven to address the needs of both centralized and distributed organizations, across heterogeneous hardware environments.

StorageGRID™ has won numerous industry awards including 2006 Storage Product of the Year and the Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Technology Innovation award. By providing a storage virtualization layer that sits transparently between enterprise applications and industry-standard storage hardware, StorageGRID addresses the needs of key, high-growth segments of the digital archiving market: