New Seagate EVault Backup Target Appliance

 This announcement was published on the blog of Seagate and written by Greg Vitarelli, PR, staff program/project manager.

Less than six months ago Seagate launched its EVault Enterprise Backup and Recovery Appliances, a portfolio of efficient appliances aimed at data centers requiring up to 100TB of usable capacity.

Today we are announcing a new backup device – the Seagate EVault Backup Target Appliance (BTA). The BTA is an all-in-one appliance engineered for large enterprise companies and service providers seeking a data protection solution for multiple OSs and applications, including Oracle databases. The BTA is based on Seagate’s hybrid cloud model, which supports environments where both private (on-premise) and public (off-premise) storage is utilized. It stands alone as the only backup target appliance that enables backup to a private, public or partner cloud and features 65TB of useable storage capacity.

“The Seagate Evault BTA has been designed for database administrators who want more control and increased flexibility to deploy backups, where needed,” said John Bedrick, Seagate product line director, cloud-connected products. “Also key to the BTA is its unique hybrid architecture as the only appliance of its type able to backup to a private, public or partner cloud.”

Seagate’s BTA = Complete Control and Flexible Options
The BTA has been designed to utilize any enterprise application’s backup software, giving the IT team complete control over how to schedule and execute backups and restores.

Also important is the BTA’s inherent flexibility to deploy backup and recovery storage vaults wherever they are needed. These include DeltaPro backups, enterprise components and granular restore. In doing so, users benefit from the flexibility of buying an appliance that can backup as much as 65TB of data (within a single 4U BTA box) for their Oracle database.

The Seagate EVault Backup Target Appliance joins a growing portfolio of Seagate backup and recovery appliances. The appliance is currently available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Availability in other regions is planned for May 2015.