If you never heard of Sepaton before (wherever you have been, lucky you) just read their name backward to get a hint of where they stand on backups. For a quick update on their approach to de-duplication this should help.
Following last year's battle cry on de-duplication Sepaton is announcing today two new virtual libraries, the S2100-DS2
offering a capacity range between 3.5 and 7 TB, and the S2100-ES2 a larger model with nominal capacity up to 1 petabyte.
The two models share a common 3U module that can mount 500 GB SATA drives, and can double the nominal capacity using built-in hardware compression.
Customers can order the DeltaStor de-duplication software on both libraries, which should increase archiving capacity 25 folds as an average, according to Sepaton.
The two VTL lines are available immediately, at a suggested price starting at $18,000 for a DS2 with 3.5 TB, which becomes $30,000 with DeltaStor, and $59,000 for an ES2 with 7 TB, priced around $190,000 with DeltaStor.
The DeltaStor option is available also as an update for previous models at about $1 per GB, according to Sepaton.
Posted by Mario Apicella on February 12, 2007 06:58 AM
