HP has introduced HP StoreOnce B6200, which it says increases enterprise agility by offering an industry-first backup performance of up to 100TB per hour, and data recovery of up to 40TB per hour.
According to the company, this is three and fives times faster, respectively, than the closest competitive offering. HP adds that users can recover more in one day with HP StoreOnce than they can in a work week with EMC, and that HP's StoreOnce B6200 provides three times faster backup and faster recovery than EMC's product, the DD990.
Dave Donatelli, EVP and GM, HP enterprise group, says this level of performance allows businesses to back up more data in less time, eliminating disruptions caused by backup windows when the applications are unavailable to users.
He says the backup system can reach native virtual tape library performance levels of 40TB per hour, which is 2.5 times faster than the native backup performance of the EMC offering.
Also introduced, the HP StoreOnce Catalyst software for HP StoreOnce Backup gives clients the ability to deduplicate data on application or backup servers before it is transferred to a centralised backup system, allowing customers to optimise backup processes, eliminate wasted resources, reduce network bandwidth costs and improve backup throughput.
Donatelli says deduplication technologies help companies deal with explosive data growth by making it economically feasible to protect and recover data using disk-based backup systems as an alternative to tape.
According to him, early deduplication technology solved some problems but left major gaps, for example incompatible technologies and multiple deduplication/rehydration cycles. It was complex to manage, had limited performance and scale, and there was risk due to lack of high availability.
HP has addressed these limitations by the introduction of its Federated Deduplication engine that allows customers to deduplicate data anywhere, do it once and never rehydrate. Competitors' solutions require data that has been deduplicated to be restored to its original state, before being sent to an archive or the data centre.
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