Friday, May 27, 2011

Sepaton’s S2100 is a grid-based, disk backup solution that expands in both processing and capacity by adding nodes (8 maximum), which can scale the system to 1.6PB and back up at 12GB/s (43TB/hr). Sepaton recently released a smaller module for remote office use. The S2100 -DS3 Series provides up to 20TB usable capacity in a 2U base module. It can expand with additional drive shelves to 80TB and generate backup speeds of up to 1500MB/sec (5.4TB/hr). The DS3 has all the features and functionality of Sepaton’s enterprise S2100 platform including automated load balancing (on backup and restore), deduplication and bandwidth optimized replication.

This solution allows organizations to maintain their enterprise-level data protection strategies leveraging Sepaton’s technology from the core to the edge of their environments. Many companies have remote locations, often much smaller offices with limited staff and IT expertise. They can deploy DS3 units in multiple remote offices in a hub and spoke topology, seamlessly moving data back to the main data center and eliminating the reliance on remote office personnel to conduct backup and restore operations.

Storage Swiss Take

Solutions like Sepaton aren’t for everyone. But if you need that kind of performance and  functionality, at scale, as the expression goes “you know who you are”. But data protection needs to be consistent across the enterprise. Backup is essentially insurance and having a single insurance company is always preferable. Until now, companies at this level haven’t had a good answer for including their remote locations in their backup infrastructures. Sepaton has closed that gap.

Eric Slack, Senior Analyst