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Subject: Data Protection
Vendor: Sepaton
Keywords: D2D, Data Protection, Data Protection Solution, Deduplication, Sepaton, VTL
Document Price: Free
Document Date: 2011-02
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Author(s): John Webster
Short Description:
Understanding the costs for Scale vs Sprawl in architecting a data protection / deduplicated environment. This paper includes results from customer interviews and discussion of Sepaton.
Full Summary:
For a number of years, Evaluator Group has been aware of the desire among enterprise IT managers to expand the role of disk storage to the data protection environment. Up until a few years ago, tape was the backup media of choice. However, when storage vendors began offering the ability to deduplicate and therefore store significantly greater volumes of data within a disk array, IT managers could see a cost justification for replacing tape with disk as a foundation for data protection.
Data deduplication technology is driving adoption of enterprise-class disk platforms because it allows the disk array total cost of ownership (TCO) to compete favorably with that of tape. And, because these platforms can emulate tape, no operational changes have to be made to support disk instead of tape as a backup media. In fact, operational support of backup data is greatly reduced by replacing tape with disk because administrative functions specific to tape management are eliminated. Investment in existing tape infrastructure can be freed up to be utilized for long-term archiving as needed.
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Enterprise Data Protection:Scale versus Sprawl Podcast
For a number of years, Evaluator Group has been aware of the desire among enterprise IT managers to expand the role of disk storage to the data protection environment. Up until a few years ago, tape was the backup media of choice. However, when storage vendors began offering the ability to deduplicate and therefore store significantly greater volumes of data within a disk array, IT managers could see a cost justification for replacing tape with disk as a foundation for data protection.
Data deduplication technology is driving adoption of enterprise-class disk platforms because it allows the disk array total cost of ownership (TCO) to compete favorably with that of tape. And, because these platforms can emulate tape, no operational changes have to be made to support disk instead of tape as a backup media. In fact, operational support of backup data is greatly reduced by replacing tape with disk because administrative functions specific to tape management are eliminated. Investment in existing tape infrastructure can be freed up to be utilized for long-term archiving as needed.