Cobalt Iron Adds VTL Feature to Platform of Adaptive Data Protection Accelerators

Cobalt Iron Inc. added a VTL feature to its platform of Adaptive Data Protection (ADP) Accelerators.

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Intended for enterprises that wish to replace aging, high-priced VTL appliances or physical tape costs, the ADP VTL feature will not only eliminate tape cost and management but will automate VTL operations and connect VTL data to the cloud, all within a unified, end-to-end enterprise data protection SaaS solution. ADP VTL also offers DR benefits for IBM iSeries users.

The ADP VTL feature is not a legacy stand-alone VTL appliance but serves as a software-agnostic tape ingest path for the ADP Accelerator. This solution is innovative because it transforms the VTL – ordinarily an appliance that operates outside the data protection workflow – into an integrated component of an end-to-end enterprise data protection solution. As such, it unleashes data from traditional VTL data silos and modernizes the protection of environments that require tape for backup and restore.

ADP VTL also includes capabilities that bring special value for IBM iSeries users. It automates IBMi/iSeries DR operations, introduces transparent cloud connectivity, and integrates iSeries backup with other enterprise data protection operations – all while maintaining familiar IBMi/iSeries backup functions.

A component of the company’s ADP platform, ADP Accelerators leverage a variety of storage types to deliver ADP’s benefits. ADP VTL scales for performance and multi-petabyte capacity, making it for large systems, applications, and databases. ADP VTL supports FC connectivity on:

• HP/UX

• HPE OpenVMS

• IBM Power AIX

• IBM Power iSeries

• Linux on Intel

• Windows on Intel

“The VTL market is on the precipice of disruption, where organizations are now being directed to modernize and unify the enterprise data protection environment. Customers still have requirements for tape operations, but they need operational simplicity and cost-effectiveness,” said Greg Tevis, VP, global strategy, Cobalt Iron. “The new ADP VTL feature adds another facet to the Cobalt Iron solution in the form of automated VTL operations and integrated management all within a SaaS-based enterprise data protection platform.“

ADP VTL is an add-on feature of ADP Accelerators. It is priced in storage-capacity tiers based on the maximum daily ingest of data.

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