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 The Quantum DX100 addresses the most significant backup challenges facing IT
professionals: meeting short backup windows, confidence that backups are
complete, and the ability to quickly restore data when needed. With Quantum's
patent-pending Optyon™ In-line Data Compression, the DX-Series is the first and
only open system disk-based virtual tape library to offer hardware based
compression! Optyon™ hardware compression allows users to effectively double
their usable capacity with approximately 2:1 compression ratio* – without
decreasing the performance of the backup server or the DX100 processor!
The DX100 enhances an existing tape backup system by separating the backup
target from the backup archive. After installing a DX100, backup jobs are sent
directly to the DX100 (the backup target) with throughput up to 3.6TB/hr.
With the Quantum DX100 system, high availability features such as RAID 5 and
redundant, hot-swappable components are combined with blazing disk performance,
which allows for more frequent and reliable backup and restore operations. By
emulating a tape library, the DX100 seamlessly integrates into existing backup
architectures without any changes to existing processes. Since it emulates a
tape library, the DX100 is also not susceptible to fragmentation, file or
operating system overhead, tuning, hackers, or volume management complexities.
The DX100 truly complements existing tape libraries (the backup archive) by
allowing them to focus on archive operations for disaster recovery and
regulatory compliance.
As a pioneer in open systems virtual tape, Quantum Corporation introduced the
award-winning DX100 disk-based virtual tape library system over four years ago.
Quantum is now the first open systems vendor to offer hardware-based data
compression via our patent-pending Optyon In-line Data Compression card. It
enables DX100 users to double their usable capacity with approximately 2:1
compression. By offloading data compression to a dedicated hardware adapter
card, the backup server and DX100 processor are not impacted. Competitor's
disk-based systems only offer software compression (if any at all), which can
decrease aggregate performance by 50% or more.
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