WASHINGTON,US:Dell has announced its latest hardware introductions aimed at SMBs. Last week the company rolled out a disk-based data backup and recovery solution in a single server: the PowerVault DL2100 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010, The company also continues to update its Vostro family of small-business notebook computers, adding the Vostro 3000 series featuring the latest mobile Intel processors in a thin-and-light design,states a Small Business Comumting report.

“Many small business owners still live in a world of denial when it comes to backup,” said Brett Roscoe, Senior Product Manager for storage solutions at Dell. “They know they need a solution, but they don’t have the bandwidth or expertise to build a backup-to-disk system.” In fact, a recent survey conducted by Symantec found that the average SMB backs up only 60 percent of its company and customer data, and that these backups occur infrequently.

The PowerVault DL2100 takes care of the heavy lifting, combining the server hardware and operating system, backup software, and up to 2 terabytes (TB) of internal storage in rack-mount appliance ideal for backing up your company’s application, e-mail, Web and other servers. In addition to the peace of mind, the main draw for small business owners may be the PowerVault DL2100’s wizard-driven setup. “The system can be up and running in 18 minutes,” claimed Roscoe. “If you can set up a Windows server, you can do this.”

The solution features automated setup and disk provisioning to expedite the backup process, and Dell claims the PowerVault DL2100 performs around percent faster than tape backup systems—an important consideration if your backups to tape have begun to exceed the middle-of-the-night backup window. The PowerVault DL2100 also offers optional deduplication, whereby duplicate data in a scheduled backup is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored or transmitted.

CREDIT: Jamie Bsales, Small Business Comumting.com