Quantum expands disk-based solution portfolio

BANGALORE: Quantum Corp., a leader in storage, today announced the DPM5500 disk-based backup appliance that integrates an optimized platform and differentiated features with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 to deliver reduced complexity and improved operational efficiency in the backup and recovery of data for Microsoft Windows Server platform customers.

Specifically tuned for efficient point-in-time performance, the DPM5500 offers a complete data protection solution that delivers increased replication opportunities for greater restore granularity. Integrated features such as Optyon hardware-based compression technology lower total cost of ownership while tape migration capabilities support disaster recovery best practices and enable customers to begin constructing their tiered storage environments. Together, Quantum's value-added features and DPM offer backup and restore benefits that no other vendor can deliver today.

Quantum said in a statement that it has worked with Microsoft to address many of the data protection challenges customers face, such as cost-effectively meeting shrinking backup windows, raising confidence that backups are reliably completed, and quickly restoring data when needed. Today's announcement of the DPM5500 expands Quantum's disk-based solution portfolio, leverages the company's years of disk-based backup experience and system innovation and builds upon its tiered storage strategy. This strategy involves the use of disk- and tape-based systems to optimize performance, reliability, availability and return-on-investment in the backup, recovery and archive process — all based upon the business value of customers' data at a given point in time.

DPM is a server software application that is designed from the ground up for disk-based backup and recovery. Developed for Windows environments, DPM provides rapid and reliable recovery of data, point-in-time protection through byte-level replication, operational simplicity, lowered total cost of data protection, and improved efficiency.