Tandberg Data RDX QuikStation
Removable disk "library" with eight drives
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 26, 2011 at 3:08 pmTandberg Data announced the RDX QuikStation, a network-attached, removable disk library that is based on RDX technology.
The RDX QuikStation delivers data protection and offsite disaster recovery for SMB and SME environments in a multi-cartridge 2U configuration. It provides users with the benefits of tape storage, including removability and archivability, and the benefits of disk, namely speed, random access, reliability and high capacity.
Designed and built by Tandberg Data, the RDX QuikStation consists of eight integrated RDX docks that provide up to 8TB of online capacity when populated with 1TB RDX disk cartridges, as well as unlimited offline capacity. Users can choose to configure the unit as either eight individually-addressable iSCSI disk targets or as an emulated tape autoloader or library. Just as tape libraries revolutionized the utility of tape storage, the RDX QuikStation will increase the ways in which removable disk technology will store, protect, archive, transport and restore data.
"The ability to simultaneously read or write from all eight docks in iSCSI mode means that the RDX QuikStation can achieve very high performance rates for faster backup and restore," said Randy Kerns, analyst with the Evaluator Group. "I would encourage users to look at the opportunities presented with the Tandberg Data RDX library. It also can be deployed for less traditional applications, such as providing system snapshot copies, data interchange between remote offices and life support for systems awaiting data from the cloud."
The RDX QuikStation includes features that streamline system deployment and management. With built-in web-based management, the RDX-based library makes remote system configuration, management, operation, status checks and security easy and convenient. Because the RDX QuikStation is compatible with popular backup applications it is able to integrate into a broad range of environments. The RDX QuikStation is already supported by Computer Associates’ ARCserve, Symantec Backup Exec, and Tandberg Data’s AccuGuard Server backup and deduplication software. Additional ISV support will be announced in the near future.
"The RDX QuikStation is the Swiss Army knife of data protection," said Marije Gould, vice president of marketing for Tandberg Data. "It is a remarkably flexible platform that facilitates consolidation of RDX data protection while providing multiple paths to adding removable disk to existing storage infrastructures. With its ruggedized and standardized RDX format, it also creates the ideal foundation for cloud seeding, bulk load, and bulk restore."
Pricing and Availability
The RDX QuikStation removable disk library is available through Tandberg Data’s channel of distributor and reseller partners. The manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP) of the RDX QuikStation starts at EURO 2,999. The RDX QuikStation comes with a one-year onsite service (where available) and software maintenance. Service upgrades are also available. RDX media is sold separately.
RDX Market Leader
Tandberg Data is the leading provider of RDX removable storage systems, having shipped more than 200,000 RDX QuikStor drives and more than 650,000 RDX cartridges to major OEMs, resellers and distributors around the globe. The company last year introduced AccuVault RDX 1TB, a next-generation RDX appliance, which includes fixed disk, RDX removable disk and preconfigured deduplication software to provide an affordable, turnkey data protection solution for the SMB/SME.
RDX Technology
Tandberg Data’s RDX technology provides a safe, rugged and portable storage choice for SMBs and SMEs. Designed to backup and archive data from servers and workstations, RDX removable disk technology offers users higher capacity, faster speed and lower cost than low-end tape products. Its transfer rate of up to 45MB/second allows users to backup 100GB of data in less than an hour, streamlining the backup process. RDX media is available in capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB.
Comments
The RDX QuikStation is not what we called generally a library that
contains a robotic to move automatically the tape cartridges. Here you
have to change each one of the eight RDX disk cartridges manually.
BDT is working on a real library, more precisely an autoloader to move
automatically the RDX disk cartridges but we don't see a lot of interest in
this product as all the capacity of the RDX QuikStation can be accessed
directly without moving them. But there is no RAID protection.
The Tandberg's unit is much more practical than a tape autoloader and
gives also the possibility to extract a disk cartridge to secure its
data in another site.
ProStor Systems, the designer and owner of RDX technology, also offers
units comparable to the RDX QuikStation with another architecture for
10-slot removable disk units with RAID-5, and the possibility to expand
to 10 units or a total of 100 slots.
Imation is in partnership with German manufacturer BDT for
multi-cartridge RDX devices, apparently based on a true RDX autoloader
with a robotic to move automatically the drives. But the company also
said that it will announce in the first half of 2011 a RDX A8
multi-cartridge storage device that seems to be comparable to Tandberg NAS.
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