Category: Sepaton

Large enterprises already backup hundreds of terabytes if not petabytes of data. The emergence of these Big Data backups means equally big changes need to occur in how enterprises protect this data. While deduplicating disk-based backup targets are part of the answer, these solutions need to increase the number of options they offer to fully satisfy all of the different backup requirements that large enterprises inevitably encounter. The Sepaton VirtuoSO data protection solution gives large enterprises the dynamic and more modern approach they need to backup their growing number of applications.

Deduplicating purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) have rapidly become the de facto standard as the preferred backup target in small and midsized enterprises (SMEs). However large enterprises have been slower to embrace these solutions because they often require highly manual setup processes and lack scalability. Sepaton has addressed these concerns in its S2100 7.1 release and automated the deployment of virtual tape libraries (VTLs) in Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) environments. With it, large enterprises may leverage Sepaton to experience more of the same backup benefits that SMEs already enjoy.

Large enterprises are feeling the pressure of Big Data in every way possible. They have more data to store, more information to access and less time than ever to back it up, secure it and then recover it. It is in this area of backup and recovery that enterprises need better options to protect their data while also alleviating mounting security concerns. The Sepaton S2100-ES3 2925 with its new V7.0 software provides them with the match they want.

Encryption’s value is no longer in question in large enterprises. Rather the broader challenge they face as they look to manage petabytes of data in complex backup environment is, “How to overcome the substantial costs and time required to manage encryption keys?” An answer to these concerns is finally at hand in the form of the newly available Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP).

Business continuity and disaster recovery have been “top” priorities for many enterprises going back at least a decade. However it is difficult to keep these strategic objectives at the “top” of the priority list when they encounter operational headwinds brought on by age-old tactical backup concerns such as increasing backup capacities and performance. Tackling these complementary but often conflicting priorities requires the implementation of a solution that delivers on both of these objectives.

Disk-based backup and deduplication have been godsends for many organizations looking for a fast, effective way to protect and store their growing amounts of data. However Oracle DBAs still sometimes feel like these two technologies have come up short in ways that have not adequately been addressed. SEPATON’s new DBeXstream technology changes this by giving Oracle DBAs access to these two technologies with the corresponding increases in throughput and deduplication ratios that they were originally led to believe they would see.

“Impossible. Nobody can jump this.” Enterprise technology buyers and IT administrators who have seen the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade can relate to how Indy feels as he looks across a great chasm and is asked to step out in faith. But too often these individuals may feel the same way when asked to make an enterprise technology buying decision with little more information than what Indy possessed.

It is 2010 and time to deduplicate, at least that’s what 60% of the respondents in a recent IDC survey had to say. However once an enterprise has said it is going to deploy deduplication is the easy part. It gets a little tougher to find a deduplication solution that meets their diverse needs of affordability, high availability, scalability and simplicity. It is these enterprise hot buttons that the new SEPATON S2100-MS2 seeks to hit.