HP adds deduplication catalyst to StoreOnce
In early June, HP showed the participants of the annual HP Discover Forum in Las Vegas an improved version of its flagship HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup disk backup system with StoreOnce deduplication technology developed by scientists from HP Labs, which was first introduced at a similar forum in Vienna last December .
With the new HP StoreOnce Catalyst deduplication acceleration software, the B6200 can now back up to one hundred terabytes of data in one hour and enable recovery from backups of up to forty terabytes of data. HP StoreOnce Catalyst can work together with the just announced seventh version of the HP Data Protector backup package (its main innovation is the conceptual search for information in backups based on Autonomy technology), as well as well-known Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup backup software.
The HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup is not only several times faster than similar disk backup systems with deduplication of other vendors, but it is the only one that implements federated deduplication, i.e. using the same StoreOnce deduplication algorithm as on the client side (source), i.e. application server or backup server, and on the side of the backup storage (target). Although some vendors offer solutions for both types of deduplication, they use two different and poorly integrated products for this, which greatly complicates the integrated implementation of deduplication for the entire IT infrastructure of the enterprise, including servers located in remote branches, for example, data that is already were deduplicated on the client side,
Another important advantage of the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup over its competitors is the cluster architecture of the system, which makes it easy to scale its physical capacity according to the scale-out scheme from 48 to 768 terabytes (up to 512 terabytes of usable capacity) and ensures correct completion using automatic failover between cluster nodes backup tasks even if one of the system controllers fails (in the minimum 48-terabyte configuration, the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup consists of two nodes, the maximum of eight).
With the new HP StoreOnce Catalyst deduplication acceleration software, the B6200 can now back up to one hundred terabytes of data in one hour and enable recovery from backups of up to forty terabytes of data. HP StoreOnce Catalyst can work together with the just announced seventh version of the HP Data Protector backup package (its main innovation is the conceptual search for information in backups based on Autonomy technology), as well as well-known Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup backup software.
The HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup is not only several times faster than similar disk backup systems with deduplication of other vendors, but it is the only one that implements federated deduplication, i.e. using the same StoreOnce deduplication algorithm as on the client side (source), i.e. application server or backup server, and on the side of the backup storage (target). Although some vendors offer solutions for both types of deduplication, they use two different and poorly integrated products for this, which greatly complicates the integrated implementation of deduplication for the entire IT infrastructure of the enterprise, including servers located in remote branches, for example, data that is already were deduplicated on the client side,
Another important advantage of the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup over its competitors is the cluster architecture of the system, which makes it easy to scale its physical capacity according to the scale-out scheme from 48 to 768 terabytes (up to 512 terabytes of usable capacity) and ensures correct completion using automatic failover between cluster nodes backup tasks even if one of the system controllers fails (in the minimum 48-terabyte configuration, the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup consists of two nodes, the maximum of eight).