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Note: Sepaton, Inc. is reaching out from its backup stronghold in enterprise data centers to the ROBOs (remote office/branch offices), with three new systems that address what the company calls the 'last 30 percent of unprotected enterprise data'. Starting with 10 or 20TB usable capacity options in a 2u form factor, the S2100-DS3 Series 1000, 2000 and 2000e can deliver backup speeds of up to 1500 MB/sec, and performance optimization features include automated load-balancing of backup, restore, deduplication and replication for continuous, maximum performance, as well as support for Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) on 10 Gb Ethernet concurrently with Fibre Channel tape emulation.
Protecting data at ROBOs is typically a challenge for large companies, says Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Oftentimes, they need backup to occur locally to facilitate rapid recovery at the ROBO, but they also need to have an offsite copy for DR (disaster recovery) ... or they want to centralize backup copies at the central data center. In the past, local tape-based backup meant requiring local personnel -- a luxury today given stringent IT budgets. If local backups can be stored on disk rather than tape, then that eliminates the need to have ROBO-based staff to deal with tape operational and media management issues. And, the ROBO backup disk target can be managed from the central data center. Add deduplication to the mix and now existing bandwidth can be leveraged for site-to-site transfer and capacity requirements at the ROBO...