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Published on: 04/01/2008
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Overview
Having identified an unmet need, Intellistore turned to its trusted hardware vendor, Quatrio, to engineer a VTL solution that combined the best de-duplication software with its high-performance hardware platform. What resulted from the collaboration was Quatrio’s PIVOT VTL/de-duplication appliance. Subsequent testing of Diligent’s ProtecTIER proved performance that could withstand the rigors of an enterprise environment.

On the VTL/de-duplication software side, the field narrowed quickly down to Diligent, which allowed Quatrio to easily integrate ProtecTIER software with their hardware.

Based on keeping backup data on the storage array for a 60-day retention time, Intellistore was confident these combined solutions would allow Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether, Intellistore included a Quantum tape library, also attached to the Quatrio PIVOT VTL appliance via Fibre Channel connections, to give Magnum disaster recovery protection on the appliance itself.The recommendation, supported by Magnum, was to continue to perform daily incrementals and weekly full backups to the VTL system. Fast backups from the VTL to the Quantum tape library could be performed on the back-end, without interruption to production applications. In addition, once a month, the latest full backup of VTL storage sent to tape would also be taken off-site. For the ultimate in lights-out data protection, Intellistore is already at work developing an affordable WAN-based DR solution for Magnum’s PIVOT VTL appliance.

Today, this system operates for Magnum much as Intellistore anticipated. Backups are now routine and provide an 80% reduction over Magnum’s prior backup window.Yasar is confident the window will continue to shrink once Intellistore helps Magnum perform other restructuring of some extra large file system volumes, some with over 9 million files that now exist on the NAS filers.

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