… TS7650G ProtecTIER Gateway and De-Dupe Appliance …

TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway from IBM Corp. is designed to deliver performance of inline data deduplication and scalability for the enterprise data center.

Comprised of the System Storage TS7650G Server combined with System
Storage ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition software, it is designed to
address the data protection needs of enterprise data centers. This
solution is designed to offer performance, capacity, scalability, and a
choice of disk-based targets for backup and archive data.

ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.2 introduces the CIFS backup interface.
It supports replication between a maximum of eight ProtecTIER CIFS
systems. Any one is limited to a maximum of three target systems within
the replication grid.

TS7650G Model DD5 Gateway with ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.2
delivers up to 25% faster throughput for multiple stream backups than
Edition V3.1 running on a TS7650G Model DD4 gateway.

TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway offers:

• Inline data deduplication performance up to 2,400MB/s (clustered node) powered by HyperFactor technology
• Multicore virtualization and deduplication
• Clustering support for higher performance and availability
• FC ports for host and server connectivity
• Flexible storage choices and options

TS7650G Server hardware platform includes:

• Two 10-core processor cards included in the base model and two 10-core processor cards included as a mandatory feature
• Two 600GB SAS boot disks
• Two dual-port 8Gb FC Qlogic HBAs included in the base model
• One LSI MegaRAID card (different than SMB) and battery backup
• Four memory cards with two 4GB memory DIMMs per card included in
  the base model and four memory cards with two 4GB memory DIMMs per card
  included as a mandatory feature (64GB total)
• One 1GbE quad-port copper included in base model
• Optional Ethernet adapters for Open System Technology (OST) or
  File System Interface (FSI) (two dual-port 10Gb or two quad-port 1Gb
  cards)
• Optional two dual-port Emulex LPe12002 8Gb FC HBA for VTL

TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is a data protection platform
designed to protect business information while reducing the amount of
space required to store data. It can help organizations efficiently
protect corporate data on disk-based storage while helping to manage the
growth of new data through reduction and elimination of duplicate data
in their backups.

The TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliances are designed to provide
an data protection solution that combines an IBM storage system, TS7650
ProtecTIER data deduplication software, and a multicore IBM server to
help meet the performance and capacity needs of a variety of
environments.

The V3.2 software loaded on the TS7650 Appliance to create a valid
TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance solution has been enhanced to
support CIFS backup interface.

V3.2 continues support for the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage API
announced with ProtecTIER V2.5, and for the VTL interface that has been
the foundation of ProtecTIER offerings. Supported replication grid
configurations for ProtecTIER OST and ProtecTIER VTL systems are
unchanged with V3.2.

Key prerequisites
TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway requires a standard FC SAN
environment. A variety of disk-based storage can be attached to this
server gateway.

ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition preload software is loaded on the System
Storage TS7650G Server to create a valid TS7650G ProtecTIER
Deduplication Gateway. A separate order for ProtecTIER Enterprise
Edition is required.

ProtecTIER Appliance Edition software is loaded on the System Storage
TS7650 Appliance to create a valid TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication
Appliance solution. A separate order for ProtecTIER Appliance Edition is
required.

Planned availability date

• June 8, 2012: MTM 3958-DD5 and all features, except feature numbers 2704, 2724, and 2734
• August 31, 2012: Feature number 2704 Console Expansion 26 Port, 2724 Rackmount TS3000 System Console, and 2734 USB Modem