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Virtual Tape Library
FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is the industry's market-leading virtual tape solution, unmatched in performance and scalability. With virtual tape, backups complete faster and more reliably, with little or no change needed to the backup environment. Your operations don't change. Your backups just get better. Sophisticated physical tape integration and data security complete the solution.
Designed from the start as an enterprise-class application, FalconStor VTL technology can achieve single node backup speeds of 1.5GB per second, or over 5TB per hour, allowing users to solve the single biggest issue in backup: meeting the backup window. Up to eight nodes can combine into a single logical unit, scaling performance to a remarkable 12GB per second, or 43TB per hour.
Built-in data deduplication dramatically reduces the amount of data needed to be stored on disk. Typical deduplication rates of 20 to 1 mean your storage footprint is reduced by 95% or more, allowing you to keep weeks or even months worth of data on disk for fast, dependable restore, without any of the reliability concerns of tape-based restore. Unique FalconStor technology ensures restores are rapid, without the often severe performance impact imposed by other deduplication solutions.
While deduplication can eliminate or greatly reduce the need for physical tapes, many organizations still require tape for long-term, offsite, or archival storage. The FalconStor VTL solution has the industry's most sophisticated integration with physical tape libraries, allowing you to directly export data to physical tape, leveraging the speed of the VTL without impacting your backup network. | VTL Enterprise Solution
VTL Virtual Appliance
Case Studies
Cegedel
Grey Healthcare Group
Korea East-West Power
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| The FalconStor VTL solution also supports small and remote office environments through storage appliances and small footprint virtual appliances.
- High performance to meet backup windows and recovery time objectives (RTO)
FalconStor VTL technology is unmatched in terms of data ingestion rates. Supporting the latest high speed protocols, including 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb Ethernet, FalconStor VTL technology takes full advantage of the latest advances in server, storage, and networking equipment. Unique technology provides fast restore, even from deduplicated data, to meet critical RTO requirements.
- Unmatched scalability and reliability
Supporting up to eight nodes in a single VTL cluster, the FalconStor VTL solution scales to accommodate multi-petabyte environments. Servers are deployed in high availability (HA) pairs to ensure system uptime.
- Reduced disk and bandwidth consumption through integrated deduplication with replication
Disk consumption is greatly reduced through integrated, global data deduplication. Deduplicated tapes can also be replicated over IP, enabling electronic tape vaulting with bandwidth reductions of 90% or more. Tape replication eliminates the costs and security risks associated with physical tape shipments.
- Physical tape integration meets ongoing corporate need for tape media
Direct integration with physical tape libraries allows the FalconStor VTL solution to expedite media creation, including the creation of multiple copies of the same tape. At the same time, tape media consumption can be reduced through techniques such as tape stacking, which combines multiple smaller virtual tapes onto a single physical tape of the same or larger format.
- Simplified deployment and operations
No other VTL solution matches FalconStor VTL in terms of its range of tape library and tape format emulation. Emulating nearly 50 tape library systems, including major enterprise libraries from StorageTek, IBM, and HP, the FalconStor VTL solution can directly replace your current tape system without any change to your backup environment. Over 30 tape formats are supported, including high-capacity formats such as LTO4 and StorageTek T10000B. All major enterprise backup applications work with FalconStor VTL technology, including the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage option. Multi-node management enables configuration and operation of up to eight nodes as a single logical unit, with integrated real-time and historical performance and capacity reporting.
| Virtual Appliance
The FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructure is a preinstalled, preconfigured, and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine—bringing the market-leading enterprise-level VTL technology with data deduplication to virtual environments. Developed for quick and easy deployment, the solution reduces infrastructure costs and complexity while maximizing the value of your storage investments. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance vastly improves the speed, reliability, and manageability of backups while optimizing storage and bandwidth efficiency for disaster recovery (DR) and continuous data availability.
Highlights
- iSCSI SAN support for fast and reliable backup and restore
- Built-in post-process deduplication technology eliminates redundant data to minimize network bandwidth requirements without impacting the backup window
- Tape format awareness accelerates and optimizes the identification of duplicate data
- TOTALLY Open™ architecture offers seamless integration with existing backup software and physical tape libraries
- Optimizes storage and bandwidth efficiency for near-line storage and offsite DR
- Ideal for any organization running a VMware Infrastructure environment
- Enables remote replication for DR
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