Quantum Enhances DXi8500 Disk Backup Solution

Quantum Corp., the data protection and big data management solutions provider, has announced it has significantly increased the storage density and power savings in its DXi8500 appliances, creating an efficient disk backup and deduplication solution for enterprise customers. The DXi8500 now incorporates 3 TB disk drives to deliver 50 percent greater storage density, 42 percent more power savings and 25 percent higher performance, offering the smallest footprint and the highest value of any enterprise disk backup solution available. In addition, the new DXi8500 encrypts data at rest without impacting performance. Taken together, the DXi8500 updates and security enhancements are designed to help customers improve data protection efficiencies while meeting increasingly demanding service level agreements (SLAs) and security needs.

DXi8500 with 3 TB disk drives now provides up to 330 TB usable capacity in a single 19-inch rack. The larger capacity drives enable up to 11 TB/hour in performance and reduce power consumption from 7000 kWh to approximately 4000 kWh for 330 TB. Starting at half the price of the leading competitive offering while providing twice the usable capacity, the DXi8500 is the industry’s most efficient enterprise backup and deduplication appliance.

Quantum provides encryption for data-at-rest via the new 3 TB Self Encrypting Drives (SED) and Full Disk Encryption (FDE) drives, protecting against a data breach resulting from physically removing a drive from the DXi8500. The encryption-at-rest feature utilises an AES 256-bit algorithm, with encryption keys stored in the system. Quantum’s hardware-based approach to encryption ensures that customers do not suffer any performance impact as a result of enhanced security.

“Our customers increasingly want to keep more data for longer periods, and they have to keep it secure and manage it at a lower cost throughout the data lifecycle,” said Robert Clark, senior vice president, Data Protection Group, Quantum. “They need to accomplish this while meeting increasingly demanding SLAs. Our goal is to provide the tools customers need to adapt to this changing environment with certainty.”