Deduplication Storage

High-speed, inline deduplication and nearline
storage from Xiotech and Data Domain

Data Backups and Retention can get out of hand. Data continues to grow and must be kept for extended periods of time—often mandated by government or industry regulations. Traditionally, organizations have backed up their data to tape, but that means the data is not immediately accessible should the need arise.

Alternately, organizations may utilize disk-to-disk backup. While that offers quick access to data, it may be financially out of reach for some. Neither solution fully addresses the growing volumes of data.

The Solution: Xiotech Deduplication Storage

The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution enables you to back up more data and keep it for longer—all in a much smaller space. The solution combines high-speed inline deduplication from Data Domain with Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology—for incredibly fast, costeffective data backups and nearline storage.

Data Domain has revolutionized disk backup and remote office data protection with patented high-speed, inline deduplication. Backup data can be reduced in size by an average of 20x. When combined with Xiotech's Emprise 5000 storage system, built on patented ISE technology, disk backup and archiving become cost-effective and easy for long-term, onsite retention and highly efficient for offsite replication to disaster recovery (DR) sites.

Xiotech Deduplication Storage Benefits

• Massive Data Reduction:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution offers an average of 10-30x data reduction, enabling cost-efficient data retention on disk. Now you can store more backups in a smaller space and keep those backups longer—without straining your budget or data center floorspace.



• Industry's Highest Performance:
  Both the Data Domain Gateway and Emprise 5000 storage system are built for speed, giving you the fastest nearline backup available. The gateway offers the industry's highest throughput (1.4TB/hour), while Emprise 5000 is one of the fastest storage systems available for the price—proven by the Storage Performance Council (SPC) testing.¹
  
  And Xiotech's Deduplication Storage solution performance scales linearly; thus, two systems provide double the speed of one.



• Easy Installation and Operation:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution is easy to install and manage, resulting in lower administrative and operational costs. In addition, automatic call-home system reporting enables proactive support and service without administrator intervention, further simplifying ongoing management.



• Seamless Integration into IT Environments:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution is qualified with leading enterprise backup and archive software, from vendors such as Symantec and CommVault. The solution easily integrates into your existing IT infrastructure without requiring changes to your data center or remote offices.



• Efficient Replication for Disaster Recovery:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution reduces the bandwidth required to replicate backup and archive data by 95-99 percent, so you can replicate more data, faster, to single or multiple DR locations. Simply connect the gateway to your backup software's media server as either a file server or virtual tape library. It takes just minutes to start backing up and recovering data.
  
  The solution enables you to efficiently replicate data from multiple remote sites to a central data center.
  
  The solution also offers the most efficient snapshots available, enabling you to implement a local backup for archive data and extended retention at the DR site.



• Ultra-Safe Storage for Reliable Recovery:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution continuously verifies data integrity, detecting and protecting against potential issues during initial backup and throughout the data life cycle. This ensures the data can be recovered if ever needed for unmatched data integrity.
  
  Optional Data Domain Retention Lock software eliminates the risk of inadvertent or malicious deletion of critical data. This software helps you meet strict government and industry regulations for retention and protection of data.



• Unmatched Reliability:
  The Emprise 5000 storage system utilized in the deduplication solution is based on Xiotech's exclusive ISE technology, which extends storage reliability far beyond that of a single disk—by 100 times or more.
  
  With such reliability, Emprise 5000:
  • Eliminates the time and risk of replacing failed disk drives.
  • Provides significant cost savings with an unprecedented five-year hardware warranty.
  
  Other high-availability features include multipath connectivity with automatic path failover, load balancing, on-the-fly storage expansion, and active-active controllers.



• Flexible Scalability:
  The Xiotech Deduplication Storage solution enables you to scale the solution to meet your changing needs. You can start with a single gateway attached directly to one Emprise 5000 system. When you need more capacity or throughput, simply add gateways and connect to multiple Emprise 5000 systems via a Fibre Channel fabric. You can independently grow capacity and throughput—up to 25 petabytes of logical capacity and 22 terabytes per hour throughput. The gateway even serves as a deduplicating NAS system, enabling you to back up and store millions of CIFS/NFS files.

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