The DXi6500 from Quantum offers a different kind of solution. It solves even complex backup problems simply and affordably by integrating the most advanced storage technology into a simple, pre-configured solution that includes all software licenses in the base price.

Overview:

DXi6500 is a family of products that integrates disk-to-disk backup-and-restore performance with all leading backup applications using a simple NAS interface. Quantum’s innovative deduplication technology means DXi6500 solutions reduce typical disk requirements by 90% or more so systems stop filling up. Plus, DXi6500 scales easily as your data grows up to 56 TB capacity. For disaster recovery protection, DXi6500 replicates encrypted backup data between sites using global deduplication to reduce typical network bandwidth requirements by a factor of 20. And when it comes to long-term retention, DXi6500 is designed to provide direct tape creation in conjunction with leading backup applications, including NetBackup and Backup Exec 2010 under the Symantec OpenStorage (OST) API.

All DXi6500 models are VMready, providing powerful protection for virtual environments and conventional servers alike. And backup software for VMware is included with every unit.

With DXi6500, it’s the integration into the broad data protection environment that turns our deduplication technology into a cost-effective way to solve important backup challenges. The end result? Multisite, multitier protection that’s easy to manage for backup, restore, and long-term retention.

DXi6500 Features:

• Data Deduplication to Reduce Disk Requirements
  Quantum’s approach to data deduplication technology divides data into variable-length blocks and uses signatures to identify blocks that it has seen before. When it sees a repeated block, it stores a pointer to the original instead of storing another copy of the data. Since the pointer takes up less space than the data block, disk requirements are reduced.

• Simple NAS Interface for Easy Installation and Sharing
  The DXi6500 is designed to make advanced deduplication easy to order, deploy, and scale in the widest variety of user environments. The interface for all DXi6500 models uses a standard NAS presentation (either CIFS or NFS) to make it simple to add to any environment with Ethernet-based networks, and easy to share between multiple servers.

• Five Pre-configured Models for Simplicity and Affordability
  The DXi6500 models were designed for simplicity and affordability. There are five models, each of which includes all the hardware needed to support the full range of capacities and all the software to support all operating configurations.

• Replication for DR Protection That Reduces Media Management
  Data backed up locally is an ideal source for replication since it already represents a point-in-time copy of the data to be protected. That means that its replication does not have to be concerned with synchronizing transactions or maintaining consistency of databases because that has already been achieved as part of the backup process.

• esXpress Backup Software for VMware
  Each DXi6500 includes a license for Quantum esXpress™ backup software for VMware. This advanced data protection solution utilizes the virtual environment itself to back up more data in less time.

• Integrated Tape Creation: Long Term Data Protection
  Tape requires minimal expenditure of power and cooling to store data safely for 30 years or more, and its cost per gigabyte is lower than any other medium. The DXi6500 family makes it easy to integrate tape creation with disk backup. All of the DXi6500 family solutions are supported by Quantum Vision™, software that lets users view and manage all Quantum disk and tape resources in all locations from a single console.

• Security
  The protection of your data is one of your highest priorities. This is why you back it up and why you create offsite copies. The DXi-Series can play a major role in this protection in several ways. By replacing removable media in your remote offices with replicated data across the WAN, any risk associated with managing physical media is avoided.

The DXi-Series provides the industry’s widest range of deduplication solutions with a common technology base, from the DXi2500 for remote offices, the DXi3500 for small businesses and distributed sites, the DXi6500 for midrange sites, and the DXi7500 for Enterprise data centres. Whether a site is protecting a few hundred GigaBytes or more than 100TB, there is a DXi solution that is optimized for your environment. All DXi-Series appliances are based on a common technology base, and all can be linked via replication to create a consolidated multi-site backup and retention environment with common management and unified service.