New Sepaton Enterprise VTL With Performance and Dedup

SEPATON, Inc. raised the bar for enterprise-ready data protection and recovery with the introduction of the S2100-ES2 Series 1000 VTL and new software with enhanced deduplication performance and scalability. Together, these solutions enable large enterprises to backup, restore, and deduplicate petabytes of data at unmatched speed and efficiency. This solution is the foundation for the company’s vision to enable data risk management and provide enterprise-class data protection. It has been selected by some of the world’s most recognizable brands including BMW, MIT, Panasonic, and CitiStreet.

The new S2100-ES2 VTL Series 1000 platform now includes 1TB disk drives, increasing footprint density by 33%, and enhanced DeltaStor V5.0 deduplication software, delivering superior ContentAware performance. These products are being demonstrated this week at Symantec Vision 08.

“The ES2-2100 has served as our VTL appliance for three years and since that time our data growth has exceeded 50% year-over-year,” said Michael Grillo, principal engineer, Foxwoods Resort Casino. “Looking forward to our next VTL upgrade, my team will require that the appliance be as dense as possible to conserve rack space and to use less power and cooling capacity. The 1TB disk drives available with the Series 1000 is attractive as it will allow us to store more data in less space and at a reduced cost. Speaking from experience, adding new technology to the SEPATON platform including capacity upgrades has always been easy.”

“Continuity is one of the ‘C-4’ issues on the front burner for both company directors and IT managers today – the others being cost-containment, compliance and carbon footprint reduction,” said Jon Toigo, managing principal, Toigo Partners International. “SEPATON’s latest blend of VTL, de-duplication and remote replication is well aligned with that business goal. I am also impressed by the sensibility of SEPATON both in terms of their desire to work within existing disk-tape ecosystems rather than joining their competitors’ misguided ‘tape is dead’ chorus, and in their future plans to evolve their solution into a broader data management play.”

The S2100-ES2 is built upon SEPATON’s unique ContentAware architecture to give users unparalleled control over data and to easily add advanced data protection applications including remote replication and data deduplication. Companies with requirements ranging from 3.5TB to petabytes of backup can seamlessly scale. The new Series 1000 enables customers to meet increasingly stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and shortened backup windows with the industry’s fastest time to data protection and recovery; to reduce capital expenses from achieving the highest deduplication ratios available; and to keep more backups online longer.

“Our vision for data protection goes beyond our previously established leadership in backup and restore capabilities,” said Michael Worhach, SEPATON’s president and chief executive officer. “SEPATON is a data protection company focused on delivering a platform that provides customers a unique level of investment protection. With our ContentAware approach, we are offering a foundation to grow capacity and performance over time, as well as seamlessly integrate additional unique capabilities that respond to changing data center requirements.”

Key new features of the S2100-ES2 Series 1000 VTL and DeltaStor software version 5.0 include:

• New Hardware Platform – The S2100-ES2 Series 1000 features 1TB disk drives (previously 750 GB) and up to 16 processing nodes. As a result, it can backup and restore data at a remarkable 34.5 TB/hour, store 1.6 PB of useable data (previously 1.2PBs) per appliance, and reduce the space requirements to store that data by as much as 50:1 with DeltaStor deduplication software. These enhancements afford 33% more density in the same footprint, thereby reducing floor space, power and cooling requirements significantly. The S2100-ES2 Series 1000 features 4Gb Fibre Channel technology designed to enable backup/restores at up to 9600MB/sec.
• Enhanced Enterprise-Class Deduplication Software – Designed to leverage a grid architecture and the speed of the ES2, DeltaStor 5.0 is the only deduplication software on the market that offers multi-node scalability and industry-leading performance that can handle tens of petabytes of data. Included in release 5.0 is a new graphical user interface that enables customers to select the data they want to deduplicate, rather than data pre-selected by the vendor. Tunable deduplication algorithms deliver enterprise customers the world’s best optimization for the data types and applications used in their environment. New custom reporting capabilities feature views of deduplication performance by backup names or cartridges. To facilitate capacity planning, DeltaStor now offers detailed system capacity information. Configurable email alerts are also included in the new feature-rich DeltaStor Graphical User Interface.

Availability and Pricing
The S2100-ES2 Series 1000 is orderable and offers scalable capacity up to 1.6PB and scalable performance up to 9600MB/s. Pricing for the S2100-ES2 Series 1000 Rack Ready starts at $69,000 for 10TB usable. New DeltaStor version 5.0 software is available as an option for the ES2 Series 1000.