Quantum De-Dupe Appliance DXi6800 Up to 156TB

Quantum Corp. announced the DXi6800 Series deduplication appliance, which combines performance, scalability and efficiency with pay-as-you-grow extensibility.

The DXi6800’s patented inline deduplication technology, high performance file system software, and intelligent metadata management deliver up to 16TB/hour performance, four times that of the market leader.

Incorporating 3TB self-encrypting disk drives, it also provides 13-156TB of usable capacity in a single system – three times more scalability than the market leader while requiring just half the power and data center floor space. At a base price that includes licenses for NAS, VTL, OST, deduplication, replication, path-to-tape and DXi Accent software for hybrid deduplication, the DXi6800 offers flexibility and investment protection for midrange and enterprise backup environments.

Racing Further Ahead of Deduplication Pack
With Advantages

• Deduplication Performance: The performance advantage alleviates the pressure of continually shrinking backup windows as data volumes grow.
• Pay-as-You-Grow Scalability: Capacity-on-demand enables to provide predictable data growth management with easy-to-install storage capacity.
• Small Footprint per TB: 3TB drives enable users to store over 3PB in 14U of rackspace – a 50% smaller footprint than the market leader, providing 50% power and cooling savings for lower total cost of ownership.
• Delivering Capabilities for Enterprises
• Cloud-Ready Deduplication: The DXi6800 can replicate to another DXi or to the cloud and is compatible with Quantum’s Q-Cloud backup-as-a-service and disaster recovery-as-a-service.
• Enterprise Data Availability: It integrates with and supports features like Symantec NetBackup AIR to improve restore service level agreements and reduce time to return to business in the event of a disaster. The DXi6800 also provides enterprise system availability with hot spare drives and new features such as Dynamic Disk Pools to spread spare capacity across drives.
• Data Security: Data-at-rest encryption via self-encrypting drives provides security without impacting performance, which is particularly critical for cloud-based backup and DR.

"We selected the DXi6800 because it offers an efficient approach to deduplication, has the ability to encrypt data at rest, and has the flexibility to offer NAS, VTL and OST presentations," said D’Wayne Switzer, infrastructure manager, International Medical Group, Inc. "The combination of scalability and capacity, along with multi-directional replication to other DXi appliances, is particularly important to growing enterprises like ours."

"We’re using the DXi-Series as the foundation of our QSafe backup, deduplication and replication service," noted Wally Lang, GM, Hipskind Technology Solutions Group, Inc. "The DXi6800 is a cloud-ready appliance, which is perfectly suited to our highly optimized low-cost cloud-based data protection, enabling an efficient disaster recovery solution."

"Quantum clearly aims to challenge the market leader in deduplication," said Jason Buffington, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Data protection will continue to be a spending priority for 2013 and was also one of the largest causes for storage expenditures in 2012. So, improving your deduplication ability will not only improve your backups, but reduce your storage expenses as well. The DXi6800’s features and reported performance should put it on the short list for data centers seeking a fast and extensible deduplication solution."

"Quantum’s all-inclusive approach to software licenses combined with our highly scalable backup appliances enables our customers to maximize their data protection investment," noted Robert Clark, SVP, data protection group, Quantum. "Customers have come to trust us to offer products like the DXi6800 that will continue to deliver value as their environments grow."

The unit is available at a price of $110,000 MSRP for a base unit with 13TB of usable storage.