HP StoreOnce Backuping at 100TB/Hour

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P announced deduplication solutions for the HP StoreOnce Backup family that enable organizations to manage risk as they deal with data growth by protecting more data in less time.

The solutions deliver backup performance of up to 100TB per hour and data recovery of up to 40TB per hour in a single system, which is up to three times and five times faster, respectively, than the closest competitive offering (Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors and of data and expert observations that, for most competitors, restore is approximately 50% of ingest performance as cited by the Evaluator Group.)

Faced with a tidal wave of data growth and new application workloads, organizations risk compliance issues due to extended backup-and-restore windows as well as management costs associated with infrastructure complexity.

HP now delivers:

• Reduced recovery time, capacity needs and bandwidth costs with StoreOnce Catalyst software, which offers performing backup-and-restore throughput when combined with the enhanced StoreOnce B6200 Backup. Clients can recover in a single day what would take a full workweek with the competition.
• Increased productivity with HP Data Protector 7 software, powered by the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), featuring governance tools that enable contextual backup and recovery of information. Clients can protect, find and recover information based on the meaning and concepts contained within the data.
• Improved efficiency of server and storage connectivity with HP Virtual Connect for 3PAR with Flat SAN, which directly connects servers and storage in a single-tier SAN, eliminating the need for complex, multitier SANs and excess networking equipment.

Higher reliability as well as improved network performance, which supports the explosion of data traffic and storage, which is connected to converged infrastructure components with HP Automated Network Management 9.2. This software offering helps IT organizations keep up with fast-changing business demands via a unified network-management solution.

Based on HP Converged Infrastructure, these solutions enable organizations to shift resources from managing and integrating traditional, inflexible technology silos to an IT infrastructure that supports process innovation and strategic initiatives.

"Clients are struggling with complex, incompatible storage solutions that are costly, hard to manage, underutilized and built for the past," said Dave Donatelli, EVP and GM, Enterprise Group, HP. "HP is transforming the storage industry with simplified and converged solutions that span from the midrange to the high end of the enterprise, enabling organizations to maximize the value from their information in the most efficient way possible."

StoreOnce: redefining data deduplication
StoreOnce is a federated deduplication solution, which means data is deduplicated once using a single technology and then moved anywhere without ever having to be rehydrated – or added back in. StoreOnce features a consistent, high-performance deduplication architecture that spans the enterprise, from application servers in remote offices to central data centers, eliminating the inefficiencies and costs of first-generation approaches.

Leveraging technology developed by HP Labs, StoreOnce includes more than 50 patent-pending innovations. By combining the StoreOnce deduplication engine with a scale-out cluster design, HP delivers a large-scale deduplication appliance with automated HA features (HP B6200 StoreOnce whitepaper, Edison Group, November 2011.) The solution also has an ‘autonomic restart’ capability that ensures backup jobs complete even if there is a major hardware failure, reducing risk of data loss.

"To remain competitive, our business protection processes must be reliable, and enable us to operate without impacting daily workflow or revenue-generating opportunities," said John Olsen, SVP and CIO, MetroPCS Communications, Inc. "HP’s StoreOnce deduplication solution will give us around-the-clock application access with lightning fast backup and recovery so we can continue to serve our customers even in the face of unexpected disasters."

New StoreOnce Catalyst software for StoreOnce Backup systems allows clients to deduplicate data on application servers or backup servers before it is transferred to a centralized StoreOnce Backup system. This approach increases flexibility, enabling clients to optimize backup processes, eliminate wasted resources, reduce network bandwidth cost and improve backup throughput.

Clients can use Data Protector 7 software, Symantec NetBackup or Symantec Backup Exec to manage deduplication and data movement in their StoreOnce Catalyst environment. ISVs can achieve this same level of control with the StoreOnce Catalyst open software development kit.

Additional innovations
Traditional data-protection and storage-networking approaches are complex, incompatible and ill-equipped to handle the new requirements associated with the growth of unstructured data, mobility and cloud-based applications.

Powered by Autonomy IDOL, the new Data Protector 7 software provides a meaning-based information protection solution. It automatically understands concepts in data, which changes the scope and benefits of data protection. Now users can retrieve all information relevant to a particular idea or topic, regardless of keywords or other search parameters. The universal information-protection software solution for the enterprise, Data Protector 7 software combines cloud-based backup to the world’s largest private cloud with physical and virtual information protection.

Flat SAN architecture increases
server and storage convergence
Legacy, multi-tier FC network architectures require a complex web of network cards, interconnects, cables and switches to keep pace with changing network traffic patterns. This creates performance bottlenecks and adds complexity. By eliminating the need for dedicated host-bus adapters, switches and associated cables to connect servers and storage, the new Virtual Connect for 3PAR with Flat SAN technology can reduce storage networking costs by 50% and enables 2.5 times faster provisioning compared to competitive offerings. HP’s new Flat SAN architecture is capable of connecting up to 768 blade servers to a single 3PAR array without a dedicated SAN.

Virtual Connect for 3PAR with Flat SAN technology also reduces storage protocol layers, cutting latency by 55% and speeding operations such as virtual machine I/O and consolidation density for virtual and cloud environments.