Exablox Offering Inline Variable and Fixed-Length De-Dupe and Inline Compression for OneBlox Appliance

Exablox Corp. has added variable-length deduplication to its suite of enterprise features for its OneBlox appliance.

With this addition, the company offer both inline variable-length and fixed-length deduplication along with inline compression in a single storage pool. These capabilities enable company’s to decrease the required storage by up to 95% and increase data reduction ratios up to 20:1. Consequently, customers dramatically increase the amount of effective storage capacity and drive costs down to $0.03/GB. Company’s variable-length deduplication feature is well suited to interoperate with backup/recovery software from major vendors, including Veeam, AppAssure and CommVault.

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Company’s ability to combine inline variable and fixed-length deduplication with inline compression is an innovation no other storage company offers. By being able to select deduplication techniques, storage administrators can now customize data reduction techniques based on application type. For example, within the same OneBlox Ring a backup share can use variable-length and compression data reduction techniques, while a share for primary storage can use fixed-length and compression techniques.

Variable and fixed-length deduplication are the two main types of data deduplication. Fixed-length deduplication uses the same segment-length and offers good data reduction ratios for information that is consistent in size. Variable-length uses a sliding window to determine the optimal boundaries for deduplication; this feature, combined with compression, enables firm’s customers to realize data reduction ratios up to 20:1 and to store as much as 4.4PB of effective storage in a single global file system.

“It makes an IT administrator’s job easier to have the choice between data reduction capabilities in a global storage pool,” said Tim Stammers, senior analyst, 451 Research. “With the addition of variable-length deduplication, Exablox has deepened its range of enterprise features, giving customers of any size access to storage features that would cost more in other storage systems.”

Variable-length deduplication is available as a free upgrade for all current OneBlox 4312 customers.