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of data reliability. Most RAID technologies
from major storage suppliers offer options to
repair bit error rates on the fly if they occur,
and will reliably retain data even as disks
occasionally fail. ProtecTIER solutions take
on this additional level of data reliability as
they support these storage subsystems.
Solution maturity. The ProtecTIER
technology has an installed base of
production deployments that numbers in the
hundreds, most all of whom are in the
Fortune 1000. Representative industries
include
financial
services,
healthcare,
telecommunications, oil & gas, retail, media
and entertainment, manufacturing, and
government. There are customers managing
storage capacities in the hundreds of
terabytes of usable capacity across multiple
ProtecTIER gateways. In its third year of
availability, the base HyperFactor technology
is mature and proven, with most customers
seeing data reduction ratios between 10:1
and 25:1 for backup data.
The IBM acquisition is an important
milestone in ProtecTIER’s technology life
cycle since its target customers care deeply
about
issues
like
reliable
long-term
technology sources, keeping the number of
vendor relationships low, worldwide support
coverage, and integration with other key data
protection technologies. IBM is a company
that large enterprises trust to address these
issues.
Taneja Group Opinion
Given the amount of data with which large
enterprises have to deal, and the expected
growth rates for this data over the next five
years, non-SCO VTLs are generally not going
to provide a sufficiently scalable, cost-
effective solution as a backup target. For this
reason, we see the VTL market rapidly
transitioning to SCO VTLs over the next 1-2
years. How a SCO VTL compares in its
overall performance and scalability are the
two critical issues which set enterprise-class
solutions apart.
With this new announcement, the TS7650G
offers the features required in an enterprise-
class SCO VTL: industry leading in-line,
single system throughput, expandability to
multiple petabytes of usable capacity, high
availability with a clustering approach that
supports a global repository, built-in features
to ensure that data is reliably identified,
stored, and retrieved, and a mature solution
that has been reliably deployed in hundreds
of customers across multiple verticals. If
you’re looking for a SCO VTL solution to
handle the kinds of backup workloads
common in large enterprises, IBM’s pedigree
in this area is solid. Just ask their
ProtecTIER customers.
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