Sepaton Renews OEM Agreement with HP

SEPATON, Inc., in enterprise-class data protection solutions, has renewed its worldwide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with HP. The new contract contains terms to reflect new HP products that bring SEPATON’s ContentAware deduplication to market as accelerated deduplication. SEPATON’s recently enhanced data deduplication software offers customers the industry’s leading performance, flexibility and scalability, while lowering disk-related backup costs.

“Today’s announcement reinforces the superiority of SEPATON’s underlying ContentAware architecture and our leadership position in the disk-based data protection market,” said Mike Worhach, president and CEO, SEPATON, Inc. “This agreement, which now includes our DeltaStor data deduplication software, is a solid example of our strategy to maintain and strengthen our sales channels as the company continues to grow. HP is broadly recognized as one of the strongest companies in the storage industry. We are proud to extend our relationship with one of the world’s largest technology companies.”

An initial agreement with HP was signed in 2005 to develop and integrate SEPATON’s data protection platform into the HP StorageWorks 6000, 9000 and 12000 Virtual Library Systems. That integration allows customers to accelerate backup performance in complex storage area network environments and improves the overall reliability of their data protection requirements. Through the previous agreement, the installation base grew to more than 700 HP customers worldwide. With the new agreement, SEPATON’s DeltaStor data deduplication software will be integrated into HP StorageWorks 6000, 9000 and 12000 Virtual Library Systems to enable longer online retention times for faster restores, faster data access, and savings in space, power and cooling.