Bull StoreWay Virtuo VTL, Up to 1PB and 45TB/Hour

On the occasion of its yearly Summit event assembling American and European customers, Bull announced the latest generation of its StoreWay Virtuo VTL.

Backup security is built into the heart of StoreWay Virtuo NV Series, operating 24×24, 365 days per year. Each component of the StoreWay Virtuo NV series is redundant allowing StoreWay Virtuo to continue to function even following disk or hardware connectivity failures. The different DR solutions provided by Virtuo NV Series allow the enterprises to choose the level of protection for their critical data.

The modular architecture of Storeway Virtuo NV Series provides in-the-box performance and capacity scalability that allow StoreWay Virtuo to grow with the business, scaling up to 1 petabyte of usable disk capacity for backup data.

StoreWay Virtuo NV Series is unified solution for backup virtualization in multiple open and mainframe environments and is integrated with all leading backup software suites.

"Building on our expertise in mission-critical systems, StoreWay Virtuo is a witness to the capacity of Bull to design and build data protection systems for large centralised environments that are both ultra-reliable and capable of adapting to the changing needs of public and private organisations", states Jean-François Bauduin, Vice President of Bull’s Innovative High-End Server Business Unit.

Technical features
StoreWay Virtuo NV Series is a VTL that operates in both disk-to-disk (D2D) and disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) modes. The StoreWay Virtuo NV Series is compatible with Bull GCOS and IBM z/OS mainframe systems. In the Open system environment, it is certified for use with IBM Tivoli Storage Management (TSM) through the IBM PartnerWorld program, and is compatible with other market-leading backup software including Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker and CommVault Simpana.

The StoreWay Virtuo NV Series
is based on the following components:

• Escala Power7 systems for engines, running AIX 6.1. Bull Escala POWER7 systems deliver performance for UNIX applications with up to four times the performance and workload consolidation capacity, and three times the performance per watt of the previous POWER6 processor-based systems.
• StoreWay Optima disk systems for backup storage applications.
• V10 of the Virtuo NV Series software engine which runs all StoreWay Virtuo NV series models

The StoreWay Virtuo NV Series comprises 3 models, covering needs from small data center backup to entreprise backup consolidation.