SAN JOSE, USA: Quantum Corp., back-up, recovery and archive solutions provider, announced a new deduplication and replication appliance that leverages a VTL interface, DXi6700.

The DXi6700 is based on the same platform as Quantum's DXi6500 family of disk back-up appliances.

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The DXi6700 can scale from 24 TB to 56 TB usable capacity. The company claims that DXi6700 delivers up to 3.5 TB per hour back-up performance and provides up to 56 TB of usable capacity. It adds that the applaince reduces disk capacity usage by 90 percent or more.

The appliance comes with all licensed software features bundled at purchase, including both replication and direct tape creation.

The DXi6700 also incorporates Quantum's Advanced Reporting tools and is compatible with latest processor cores and 8Gb FC connections.

"Quantum was first to market with open systems VTL, and today our fibre channel deduplication systems solve demanding challenges for some of the largest organizations in the world," said Janae Lee, senior vice president, Disk and Software Products Group, Quantum.

The DXi6700 prices start at $159,000 MSRP and is available now.