Tributary Systems Storage Director: “One Size Fits All”

“One Size Fits All” is an advertising slogan that’s been used (and many times abused) as long as I can remember, and I’ve been around a while! Many products touted as one size fits all would be better described as “one size fits some”. So are there any products that actually fit this advertising cliché? Well, we here at Tributary Systems think that in the world of Enterprise Data Backup there is indeed: Storage Director®!

Unique to the Storage Director® Backup Appliance is the ability to emulate multiple standard front-end interfaces to which existing backup servers and applications can connect and control. Because the Storage Director Backup Appliance adheres to the use of standard interfaces, backup servers can reside on nearly any platform and operating system in the market today. This includes all open platforms (x86 Intel® or AMD based systems) as well as IBM iSeries™ (AS/400), IBM Power Systems™ (running AIX, Linux®), HP OpenVMS, HP UX, and open systems (running Windows, Linux, UNIX® and VMWare). The solution also has custom developed interfaces for proprietary computing platforms such HPE NonStop. In addition, each Storage Director node will support multiple server types running different operating systems concurrently and provides the end user with Backup, Restore, Archival and Disaster Recovery functionality.

Also, Storage Director is compatible with NetBackup, Commvault Simpana, TSM/Spectrum Protect, BRMS and other backup management applications. Storage Director is architected to allow backup to any storage device, medium, or technology including tape, disk, flash storage, NAS, or S3 object storage. Backup to multiple targets, replication to remote sites and data tiering are all supported with Storage Director.

FULLY AUTOMATED BACKUP AND RESTORE OPERATIONS

The technology within Storage Director brings a policy based, scalable, flexible, and high-throughput solution to backup and restore operations. This translates to an operational staff that no longer needs to monitor data movement, thereby reducing IT overhead.

REMOTE SITE BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Offsite data storage is often a prerequisite in satisfying complete data backup and security. This can be accomplished by writing data to physical tape and then storing the tapes in an offsite vault. A better and more cost effective approach is to configure the Storage Director Backup Appliance to electronically transfer encrypted data to and from a remote site. Since the data is readily available at the remote site, restoring using a Storage Director Backup Appliance at the remote site is an integral part in any disaster recovery plan. The solution incorporates enhanced replication features and has built-in WAN optimization and latency management to enhance throughput.

TIERING

Storage Director Backup Appliance has multiple endpoint tiering, both on premise and in the cloud. This feature can securely vault data to multiple public and private cloud endpoints such as AWS, Google, Azure and IBM Cloud, as well as any S3 compatible cloud architecture. By allowing virtual pools of data to be tiered to lower cost media (tape/cloud) when data retention periods increase, usage of expensive storage targets will be reduced.

PERFORMANCE

Storage Director has the fastest raw data WRITE (backup) and READ (restore) performance both from near line storage (cache) and from on-premise object storage, NAS, tape, remote archive and public cloud of any solution on the market today. For example, Storage Director can backup 300+ percent faster and restore 500+ percent faster per node and per given network connection than Dell EMC Data Domain. Recall that deduplication appliances are performance constrained due to in-line deduplication of data, the need for rehydration of data upon restore, the mandatory garbage cleaning requirement, and a lack of high performance tiering to archival media such as tape, hybrid or public cloud. It is Storage Director’s READ, WRITE performance that attracted industry rivals IBM, HPE Storage and Hitachi Vantara to all partner with TSI for backup/restore.  Independent performance test data is available for review.

STORAGE DIRECTOR KEY FEATURES:

• Provides fully automated backup, restore and DR operations
• Replaces Dell EMC Data Domain, IBM ProtecTier and all other dedup backup appliances
• Intelligently scales storage locally and into the cloud (Amazon S3, Glacier or any object storage cloud
• Provides a customized high performance front-end to IBM Cloud Object Storage (Cleversafe) and Hitachi HCP object storage
• Incorporates AES 256 bit encryption and enhanced security
• Incorporates built-in data reduction, WAN optimization and latency reduction
• Meets or exceeds data backup requirements for speed, capacity, compatibility and reliability
• Scales seamlessly by adding nodes to meet performance requirements and add cache for multiple petabytes of storage
• Enables alternate site disaster recovery schemes
• User-defined policies allow flexible tape, disk, flash, cloud and data migration strategies
• Supports heterogeneous, multi-platform environments
• Customized configurations for higher availability and specific customer needs
• Supports tape library consolidation, modernization and replacement
• Intuitive, easy to use GUI is employed for system configuration, administration, and daily operations

So maybe Storage Director isn’t 100% “One Size Fits All”, but in the world of Enterprise Backup, there’s nothing closer!

And recall that Tributary Systems has been an HPE partner for over 22 years!

Of course, if you’d like additional information on NonStop Tape or Storage Director, visit www.tributary.com, or call Matt Allen at 817-786-3066 (office) or 713-492-7434 (cell).

Storage Director allows NonStop professionals to “augment what they have and use it in creative new ways!”