Yamaha Motor France Taps Quantum De-Dupe

Yamaha Motor France has begun using Quantum’s
deduplication technology, along with €140 million firm APX Intégration, in order to increase
the retention time and flexibility of its backups.

Having had a Quantum tape library for several years, Yamaha Motor has just
added the DXi 4601 disk-based deduplication appliance to its existing data
protection infrastructure, thus allowing it to reduce recovery times whilst
simultaneously guaranteeing one month’s worth of on-site backup. Data that
needs to be kept for longer is stored on cartridges and then outsourced.

The DXi 4601 appliance, issued with a usable capacity of 8TB, comes with an
additional 50% capacity, free of charge. This pre-installed additional
‘capacity-on-demand’ will allow Yamaha to handle its future backup storage requirements
by increasing the hot capacity by adding a licence key.

As DXi appliances are issued with all licences (deduplication, compression,
replication, encryption, capacity-on-demand), Yamaha will be able to increase
the efficiency of its IT continuity plan thanks to remote replication of
backups.