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DXi6900-S De-Dupe Appliance From Quantum Quadrupling Performance

Incorporating 8TB self-encrypting HDDs, up to 544TB useable in 18U

Quantum Corp. announced a new model in the DXi6900 series that has twice the density and quadruple the sustained performance of the current DXi6900.

QUANTUM_DXi6900_1The DXi6900-S is a deduplication appliance to incorporate 8TB self-encrypting drives, delivering the high density backup – up to 544TB useable 18U of rack space. It is also more efficient than other deduplication appliances, consuming 50% less power than competitive offerings. It is designed for large, multi-site data protection environments, where customers are addressing the challenges posed by the latest software and data requirements. This appliance enables customers to shrink backup windows and speed restore SLAs while reducing the hardware footprint, power and cooling in their data centers.

By incorporating 8TB HDDs, the DXi6900-S delivers at least 50% greater density than other deduplication appliance. This enables customers to not only reduce the physical footprint of their data protection solutions but also achieve a 50% power reduction versus competing deduplication appliances.

The DXi6900-S scales from 34 to 544TB of useable capacity and, at its maximum configuration, occupies 18U of rack space. At a typical 20:1 deduplication ratio, this 18U configuration provides over 10PB of logical storage.

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SSD technology yields 4X performance boost

The DXi6900-S node integrates the SSD technology to provide metastorage and access. As a result, it speeds ingest, read, replication and space reclamation performance, enabling customers to complete all these tasks several times faster than with previous DXi systems and numerous competitive products.

DXi software capabilities
Powered by firm’s StorNext file system, the DXi6900-S yields consistently fast ingest and replication performance, even while utilizing fewer large-capacity physical HDDs. DXi software also incorporates Dynamic Disk Pooling (DDP), a technology that is more efficient than RAID for rebuilding HDDs, providing the benefits of the 8TB HDDs without sacrificing performance or availability.

Software features for large enterprises
The latest version of DXi software integrates with a plug-in for Oracle RMAN, enabling reduced network traffic and higher performance. The combined solution can complete full backups in a fraction of the time typically needed and makes multiple image backups available to the Oracle Database Appliance.

The DXi6900-S, including the newest DXi software, is available.

This DXi software will be available soon as an upgrade for existing DXi6900 and DXi4700 customers.

Jason Buffington, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “To meet modern SLAs, you have to build your data protection strategy around reliable and high-performance protection storage – and to make that economically viable, you must have deduplication. Quantum continues to innovate and drive the deduplication appliance technology curve forward. The DXi6900-S provides impressive density, and the other new enhancements Quantum is delivering will be valuable to large, multi-site data protection environments as yet another core component to a comprehensive portfolio that includes Quantum disk, tape and cloud offerings.”

Christophe Rossi, CEO, CNCR Group, said: “The DXi6900-S offers distinct advantages for large enterprise customers coping with the physical limits of their data centers, and we see tremendous potential for customers seeking a more efficient solution to their data protection challenges.”

Eric Bassier, senior director, data center solutions, Quantum, said: “As the strategic value of data continues to increase, IT professionals are looking for ways to manage and protect it more efficiently and cost-effectively, while minimizing the footprint of their data protection solutions. The new DXi6900-S model extends the DXi6900 series to serve the needs of those customers.

Dxi6900-S data sheet

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