Sepaton VirtuoSO: Scale-Out NAS for Enteprise Data Protection

Sepaton, Inc. unveiled its VirtuoSO data protection solution.

Based on new OptiScalearchitecture, it delivers performance, with groundbreaking advancements in deduplication, grid scalability, multi-protocol support, and smart data movement.

The result is a high-performing scale-out NAS-based data protection solution with five times the capacity of competitive solutions at initial release with up to 22 times the capacity planned for future releases. It is engineered to address the needs of enterprise data centers, manage data growth and new data types, with support for virtualization, big data, cloud and other emerging use cases.

Sepaton previewed the Sepaton VirtuoSO solution this week at Storage Networking World Fall 2013 at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Long Beach, CA.

With data growth projected to exceed 40 zettabytes by 2020, data protection is becoming more challenging for modern data centers. Traditional data protection approaches are not robust enough to meet the most critical challenges facing enterprise IT: data growth, meeting fixed or shrinking backup windows, achieving RTOs, budget constraints, and increasing diversity of applications, systems, data types, and protocols.

“The data protection market is poised for disruption,” said Mike Thompson, president and CEO, Sepaton. “Big data and other key initiatives have challenged customers with unabated data growth, both structured and unstructured. Meanwhile, data protection vendors continue to offer point product backup solutions that create data center sprawl and result in ever-increasing cost and complexity. Sepaton has a strong heritage of leadership delivering the world’s most efficient backup and recovery solutions designed specifically for enterprise IT organizations that manage extremely large and growing volumes of data. Today, we’re bringing that expertise to customers in a new product family with an extensible architecture that addresses their current and future data protection requirements. The VirtuoSO solution takes data protection to a new level, delivering the market’s most efficient deduplication in a market leading solution that scales to greater levels of capacity and performance than any other product in the world.”

“Data centers today are challenged by an explosion in data volumes, data types, and devices,” said Laura Dubois, VP, storage research, IDC. “As a result, the disk-based data protection and recovery market is experiencing very strong growth and is anticipated to top nearly $17B in 2017. Data center IT staff are recognizing that continuing to add more and more independently addressable NAS data protection systems and resources is inefficient, cost prohibitive and complex.” (Source:  IDC, Worldwide Disk-Based Data Protection and Recovery 2013-2017 Forecast, Doc # 242452, Aug 2013)

VirtuoSO provides support for multiple NAS and emerging protocols, ‘smart’ hybrid deduplication (inline hash-based and post-processing), and has a comprehensive next-generation management system. It is built on OptiScale architecture designed with the future in mind, enabling it to deliver the fastest performance and largest capacity in a single system, while reducing operating and capital costs.

Major components include:

• Extensible Scale-out Architecture purpose-built for enterprise data protection and optimized for large sequential I/O workloads. Engineered with the flexibility to support features for new and emerging protocols, data types, and backup applications as well as  new approaches to backup, virtual environments, and cloud integration.
• Grid scalability provides seamless addition of performance and capacity with automatic, continuous rebalancing of workloads to protect many petabytes in one, easy-to-manage system. It enables enterprises to add performance and storage capacity independently as needed starting at 7.9TB/hour with a single node and scaling up to 16 nodes for total throughput up to 126TB/hour in a single system.
• ‘Smart’ hybrid deduplication optimized for all workloads and data types for the most efficient use of storage and bandwidth. VirtuoSO Smart Hybrid Deduplication software automatically maximizes data reduction and performance globally, using inline and post-processing modes, depending on data type and change rate. It also enables policy-driven setting of the deduplication mode, including an option to bypass deduplication for data types such as encrypted or compressed data.
• Smart data movers enable multi-source and multi-target replication, and data migration for accelerated ingest and network efficiency. VirtuoSO Intelligent Data Mover software is the basis for replication, source dedupe, data migration, and data tiering.
• New system management and reporting capabilities included in a new GUI easy management with powerful dashboards from anywhere on any device.

The VirtuoSO data protection solution is currently in limited release and will be available in Q1 2014. Pricing starts at $344,500.