Hifn Capacity Optimized Card Successfully Supports Bull’s StoreWay Virtuo Backup Solution
Hifn, the storage and networking innovator, recently announced that European IT company Bull has chosen to integrate Hifn’s new Express DR 650 data reduction card into the company’s newly launched StoreWay Virtuo V7 backup/storage and tape virtualization solution. The addition of the Hifn DR 650 data reduction card will allow Bull to provide customers with an efficient capacity optimization solution that doubles the storage space of legacy disks while successfully cutting data center energy, space and cooling requirements in half.
As a storage integrator, we are committed to delivering more value to our customers by integrating the latest technology into our products and solutions,” said Benoit Hallez, director of Bull’s global StoreWay storage division. In addition to the rising demand for data storage, IT organizations are challenged to optimize the space, energy and cooling needs of their data centers. The StoreWay Virtuo with integrated Hifn Express DR cards can provide such an effective storage solution to help data centers meet the growing challenges.”
Michael Goldgof, vice president of marketing at Hifn, noted, “Bull has realized that a capacity-optimized solution with hardware benefits can bring great customer value to backup applications like the StoreWay Virtuo V7 . As the rate of data growth conflicts with energy, cooling and management resource requirements, the capacity optimization capabilities offered by Hifn’s market-leading Express DR cards have become the de facto standard for meeting these needs.”
Designed to help IT administrators cope with the exponential growth of stored data and reduce storage total cost of ownership (TCO), the Express DR family of Hifn PCI Express cards provides customers with enterprise-class hardware-accelerated capacity optimization capabilities that complement modern multi-core servers and advanced data backup storage systems such as Bull StoreWay Virtuo V7. Hifn’s Express DR 650 Data Reduction Card provides continuous data traffic of up to 600 MB/sec per card in full duplex mode and up to four cards per node, enabling traffic in excess of 2 GB/sec. Hifn’s Express DR cards are based on a highly reliable, zero-defect design that ensures 100% compressed data validation, combining CRC data integrity with automatic failover backup. The product also offers failsafe software features to ensure data availability and recoverability in the event of DR card unavailability.
Bull’s StoreWay Virtuo V7 is part of the Enterprise Backup Architecture, a backup solution that manages back-end disk and tape environments through an integrated solution that provides tape library and drive virtualization, disk caching, and physical tape library management. Bull offers StoreWay Virtuo models with multiple options, including single or multiple Express DR 650 cards, to ensure maximum data traffic.
