Siemens

Fujitsu Siemens Computers today announces a new version of its CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance (VTA). Version 4 introduces dual-target save, allowing users to backup data either to the VTA’s disk-based cache or to tape (dual-target). In addition to even greater scalability, the new version is designed for thin provisioning - through the flexible allocation of storage resources.

Also in CentricStor Version 4, available from the first quarter of 2008, CentricStor provides expanded service and maintenance functions, and creates the basis for deduplication functionality. CentricStor Version 4 has been specially developed to address the three major pain points that data protection managers face today: * Continued growth of data volumes; * Data retention periods getting even longer; and * The need to establish a second data centre to provide greater disaster tolerance.

Directly addressing these pain points, the new version of CentricStor provides the industry’s biggest backup capacities - starting with the biggest VTL cache, which now scales up to a massive one petabyte - and Fujitsu Siemens Computers has trebled the number of logical volumes that can be processed in one system, from 500 000 to 1 500 000. Heidi Biggar , storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

By adding disk-to-disk support to CentricStor - and expanding the size of the CentricStor cache to 1PB - Fujitsu Siemens Computers does not just put a ‘band-aid’ on an age-old data protection problem, it provides a real solution - one that allows customers to match data attributes to their current data protection requirements.