Atempo has made lots of progress

Atempo joined the recent IT Press Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, for the 5th time. As the company did a lot of things during the last few months, it was the right opportunity to take time with 2 key executives instrumental in the success of Atempo: Ferhat Kaddour, VP Sales and Alliances, and Louis-Frederic Laszlo, VP Product Management.

Founded 30 years ago in 1992 in France under the name Quadratec, Atempo is a reference in data protection and data management software, with more than 2000 customers and more than 200 employees. The company sells its products exclusively via a strong channel built for a few decades to address some vertical use cases or operate as a generic answer.

Atempo has had several lives as an independent entity, under the ASG - Allen Systems Group - umbrella and back as an independent firm since 2017 when Luc d’Urso acquired Atempo from ASG via his kickstart legal entity. On the history timeline, in 2006, Atempo has acquired Storactive to become Lina, in 2017, Atempo picked Synerway, another french data protection ISV, and finally in 2019 swallowed Lima and has initiated an AI lab named Nextino. All of these consolidate Atempo as a strong data protection and management company.

As of today the product line is split between data protection and data management from SMB to large enterprises aligned with vertical industries and domains. The product family is represented by the historical strong software Tina aka Time Navigator, Lina or Live Navigator, the NEW Continuity and Miria.

Let’s dig a bit into Miria. As we know the solution is super open, probably one of the most open in its category, supporting a wide variety of file servers from NAS to parallel file systems, access methods, private or public clouds via S3 and related object stores and finally tape.

One of the recent few announcements was the partnership with Quantum to couple Tina with Quantum DXi and the Panasas one around Miria. WE saw also agreements with Storj, CIQ around Rocky Linux, DataCore or Seagate. Some of us also watched the OVHcloud cold archive service built on IBM tape library and 3592 tapes controlled and managed by Atempo Miria.

Miria was also listed in the recent Coldago Map 2022 for Unstructured Data Management (LINK) as a challenger without any leader in the domain.

The team has shared ambitious elements for 2023 and beyond around data immutability, data integrity, cost control and sustainability. Among these we saw fast-scan and block deduplication for S3 and some container flavors.