‘Best-in-class’ scalability, density and cost per TB with pay-as-you-grow model

Quantum Corp. has announced the new DXi4700 Series deduplication appliances, which deliver broad and simple scalability with an industry-leading cost per TB. The first model in the series, the DXi4701, offers an expansive usable capacity range from 5 TB to 135 TB and is the only deduplication appliance available today providing capacity-on-demand with 4 TB high density disk drives. The DXi4700 Series provides an easy “pay-as-you-grow” deduplication solution, while offering security, performance and value features that make it a particularly good fit in the datacenter, hosted environments and remote sites.

An efficient, scalable and easy-to-use extension for the DXi4000 Series
Closely following the introduction of the DXi V4000 virtual deduplication appliance, the DXi4700 extends the DXi4000 Series’ low-cost physical and virtual backup options and offers a number of distinct advantages over the competition:
· Highest efficiency: The DXi4700 enables significant power and footprint savings – up to
42 percent lower power consumption and a 192 percent denser footprint than the leading competitive offering. This makes the DXi4700 an ideal choice for managed services providers and anyone concerned with energy costs and datacentre space.
· Pay-as-You-Grow scalability: The DXi4700 is the only deduplication appliance available with 4 TB self-encrypting drives (SEDs) that scales in license-based increments of usable storage, thereby providing simple, predictable and easy-to-install storage capacity.
· Ease-of-use: Like other DXi®-Series appliances, the DXi4700 features install wizards, graphical reporting and replication scheduling, as well as NAS to VTL presentations and
1 GbE to 10 GbE connectivity, enabling users to easily install, configure and upgrade the system within hours.
· Industry-leading value: With the lowest cost per TB, the DXi4700 enables a quick return on investment, while providing up to 5 TB per hour native performance. Like all DXi-Series offerings, the DXi4700 also includes all software licenses in its base price: NAS, VTL or OST, deduplication, replication and DXi Accent® software for distributed deduplication.
· Enterprise-class data availability: The DXi4700 provides reliable recovery and access through data integrity checking, new hot spare capability and the ability to replicate offsite to multiple DXi appliances or Quantum’s Q-Cloud™.
· Comprehensive data security: SEDs protect against breaches of data at rest without degrading performance, unlike software-based encryption which can suffer a 25 to 30 percent performance impact when enabled. Data is encrypted during replication using an AES 256-bit algorithm to remain secure in flight.