Quantum Upgrades Disk Backup Appliances

Data Center | News | Mike Vizard, Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Backup and Recovery, data management
Quantum is replacing its existing remote office backup offering with a new disk backup appliance that is two to three times faster than its predecessor.

The DXi4500 series of disk backup appliances leverage faster processors and significantly larger drives to help IT organizations close backup windows that have greatly expanded as the amount of data that needs to be managed continues to grow unabated.

Mike Sparkes, Quantum disk marketing manager, said that despite the advantages of disk backup and data deduplication, many IT organizations have yet to fully embrace these technologies because they find them complex to use and expensive to deploy. As an appliance, Sparkes said the DXi4500 series is designed make using these technologies much simpler to master by leveraging Quantum Vision software.

Compatible with the Symantec OpenStorage API, the Quantum disk backup appliances can be used in conjunction with any third-party data deduplication software, said Sparkes.

Pricing for the DXi4500 series, which come in 2TB and 4TB versions, start at $12,500 and $22,500, respectively.

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Pretty Interesting Alternatives to Data Domain and Exagrid
Thu, 2010-05-13 01:52 — Mark Campbell (not verified)
Quantum continues to put out there some pretty interested deduplication devices. But the concept that they're going to solve complexity at the NAS level when most of the complexity exists at the third-party backup software level doesn't really work.

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