Bull Selects Hifn

Hifn announced that Bull has selected Hifn’s new Express DR 650 data reduction cards to integrate into the company’s newly announced StoreWay Virtuo V7 backup/restore and tape virtualization solution. The addition of the Hifn DR 650 data reduction card enables Bull to provide customers with an efficient, capacity optimized solution that offers double the storage capacity with the same disk space while effectively cutting the power, space and cooling requirements of the data in half.

“As a storage integrator, we seek to deliver value to our customers by integrating the latest in technical innovation within our products and solutions.” said Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull’s worldwide StoreWay storage division. “IT organizations are now confronted not only with escalating data storage requirements but also how to optimize space, power and cooling within the data centers. StoreWay Virtuo equipped with Hifn’s Express DR card delivers an efficient storage solution that will help them get a handle on these growing issues.”

 “Bull has recognized the high customer value that hardware-advantaged capacity optimization brings to a backup solution such as the StoreWay Virtuo V7,” said Michael Goldgof, Vice President of Marketing at Hifn. “As the data growth rate has collided with the power, cooling and management resources required, capacity optimization through Hifn’s market-leading Express DR cards has become the defacto-standard for addressing these requirements.”

Designed to help IT administrators deal with the exponential growth in stored data and improve storage total cost of ownership (TCO), the Hifn Express DR family of PCI Express cards provides enterprise-class, hardware-accelerated capacity optimization designed to complement modern multi-core servers and advanced data backup storage systems such as the Bull StoreWay Virtuo V7. Express DR cards combine superior data integrity features with intelligent data reduction and unprecedented performance for any type of unstructured data. Hifn’s Express DR 650 data reduction card provides up to 600 MB/sec sustained data throughput in full duplex mode per card and up to four cards can installed in a single node pushing performance beyond 2 GB/sec. Hifn’s Express DR cards are built on a high-reliability, zero-defect design that ensures 100 percent compressed data verification, combining CRC data integrity with automatic failover. A failsafe software feature guarantees that data is available and recoverable in the event the DR card is not available.  

Bull’s StoreWay Virtuo V7 is a backup solution for managing the back-end disk and tape environments in enterprise backup architectures through an integrated solution providing tape library and drive virtualization, disk caching, and physical tape library management. StoreWay Virtuo V7 supports both Bull Gcos and IBM MVS mainframe and open server environments, allowing data to be backed up from and restored to a variety of heterogeneous platforms and backup software. Bull will offer the StoreWay Virtuo model with various options including one or multiple Express DR 650 cards to guarantee maximum data throughput.