Infortrend EonCloud Gateway vs Tiger Bridge

Infortrend EonCloud Gateway connects local storage with cloud services for data migration, caching, backup, and tiering. It supports five workflows: cloud file cache, cloud file sync, cloud volume replication, cloud archiving storage, and cloud tiering. File- and block-level transfers can use protocols including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FTP, and Rsync. Listed cloud targets include Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Baidu Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Wasabi, Yandex Object Storage, hiCloud, HCP, and Backblaze Cloud. Cache policies range from high-priority and local-only settings to rules that prevent caching on reads or writes. Infortrend says the gateway uses a unique key for data encryption and SSL for cloud transmissions; compression and deduplication reduce data size. Reports cover cloud connection status, network transfer, local access, and cache use. The hybrid product is self-hosted and intended for enterprises. It requires at least 8GB of system memory. Pricing is on request, with a 90-day trial and no free plan; license upgrades depend on the purchased storage model.

Tiger Bridge is hybrid data-management software for coordinating files across on-premises storage and cloud or other on-premises systems. It presents those locations as a unified namespace and applies user-defined rules to move less-accessed files to cloud, tape, or disk tiers. It can copy files to cloud storage and replace local copies with nearline stubs to reclaim space, and it offers real-time replication to remote sites. Retention controls and checksums support retention and file-integrity validation. The product supports Windows and hybrid deployment, with local caching and edge synchronization. Listed targets include Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Huawei Cloud, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, LYVE Cloud, Wasabi, and S3-compatible storage. Scale Up, Flexi-Archive, and Collaborate each list a 200GB minimum commitment; monthly charges are based on the maximum managed capacity tracked in that month. A free 30-day trial is listed. Tiger Technology, which builds hybrid data products for businesses, was founded in 2003 and lists offices in Sofia, Alpharetta, Dubai, and London.