De-duplication advances puts 50PB on single VTL

Virtual tape specialist Sepaton announces 50 petabyte disk array

Virtual tape library (VTL) specialist Sepaton claims that companies can store up to 50 petabytes (PB) of data on its latest disk array.

The S2100-ES2 Series 500, launched today, has a native capacity of 1PB made up of 500GB hard disk drives, with compression doubling that to 2PB.

But Sepaton chief technology officer (CTO) Miki Sandorfi says that integrated DeltaStor byte level de-duplication (dedupe) technology can shrink 50PB of information to fit onto the VTL once duplicate data has been removed.

‘That [reduction] average was achieved across the base of customers that have deployed it, but it does vary according to specific content. With Exchange we can achieve 300-500:1 and Oracle databases 30-2000:1 – different algorithms belong to different data types,” he said.

The S2100-ES2 is designed to imitate a type library for disaster recovery applications and features a 4Gbit/s FC connectivity supporting 4800Mbyte/sec data transfers.

UK pricing was not available at the time of writing.