The DX100 enhances an existing tape backup system by separating the backup target from the backup archive. After installing a DX100, backup jobs are sent directly to the DX100 (the backup target) with throughput up to 3.6TB/hr.
With the Quantum DX100 system, high availability features such as RAID 5 and redundant, hot-swappable components are combined with blazing disk performance, which allows for more frequent and reliable backup and restore operations. By emulating a tape library, the DX100 seamlessly integrates into existing backup architectures without any changes to existing processes. Since it emulates a tape library, the DX100 is also not susceptible to fragmentation, file or operating system overhead, tuning, hackers, or volume management complexities. The DX100 truly complements existing tape libraries (the backup archive) by allowing them to focus on archive operations for disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.
As a pioneer in open systems virtual tape, Quantum Corporation introduced the award-winning DX100 disk-based virtual tape library system over four years ago. Quantum is now the first open systems vendor to offer hardware-based data compression via our patent-pending Optyon In-line Data Compression card. It enables DX100 users to double their usable capacity with approximately 2:1 compression. By offloading data compression to a dedicated hardware adapter card, the backup server and DX100 processor are not impacted. Competitor's disk-based systems only offer software compression (if any at all), which can decrease aggregate performance by 50% or more. |
