Quantum Increased Storage Density and Power Savings of DXi8500 De-Dupe Appliance

Quantum Corp. has increased the storage density and power savings in its DXi8500 appliances, creating an efficient disk backup and deduplication solution for enterprise customers.

It now incorporates 3TB disk drives to deliver 50% greater storage density, 42% more power savings and 25% higher performance. In addition, it encrypts data at rest without impacting performance, just one of several data security enhancements Quantum also announced.

Taken together, the DXi8500 updates and security enhancements are designed to help customers improve data protection efficiencies while meeting increasingly demanding SLAs and security needs.

Storage Efficiency in the Enterprise

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

Encryption of Data-at-Rest
with No Performance Degradation

Quantum provides encryption for data-at-rest via the new 3TB 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.
Hardware-based approach to encryption ensures that customers do not suffer performance impact as a result of enhanced security.

End-to-End Data Security Software Capabilities

DXi Accent software now encrypts data-in-transit using an AES 256-bit encryption algorithm. Encryption of data-in-transit enables customers to more securely leverage DXi Accent’s abilities to reduce network bandwidth usage by deduplicating data on the host prior to sending it to the target.
DXi 2.2 software includes a new Secure File Shred feature, which provides a form of space reclamation that enables customers to securely delete specific backup files from a DXi appliance. The feature is suited to customers in financial, healthcare and government organisations adapting to regulations mandating that sensitive data be securely deleted.
All Scalar libraries now support the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) open standard for centralised encryption key management, with SafeNet KeySecure key manager certification.

"Keeping data secure from creation to deletion has never been more challenging or more important to our customers," noted Daniel Furth, CTO, StorageHawk. "Federal government customers have particularly stringent security requirements, and we think the Secure File Shred feature will be very appealing to them."

"Organisations of all sizes are concerned with optimizing performance and improving efficiency at all price points," noted Russell Fellows, senior partner, Evaluator Group. "Quantum’s enhancements to their DXi8500 platform address these concerns by increasing capacity and density, reducing required power and cooling while also improving performance. With Quantum’s enhancements and 3TB drives, the DXi8500 helps enterprises meet increasingly difficult data protection needs with tight budgets."

"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, SVP, 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."

SlideShare presentation illustrating DXi8500 storage efficiency and new end-to-end security features