IBM ProtecTIER® Deduplication solutions, featuring revolutionary and patented HyperFactor® data deduplication technology, provide enterprise-class performance, scalability, and proven enterprise-level data integrity to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center down to mid-market environments while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions.

IBM ProtecTIER deduplication solutions provide:

• Improved Backup and Recovery Performance — Up to 1000 MB/s or more sustained inline deduplication.
• Storage Capacity Reduction — Deduplication reduces storage capacity consumption up to 25 times or more.
• Investment Protection — Meets today’s requirements and can easily scale to 1PB of physical storage that can store up to 25PB or more of data.
• Data Integrity—Non-hash-based approach avoids possibility of data loss due to hash collision.
• Non-Disruption — Inline approach ensures processing windows are met and existing operations not disrupted.
• Production Proven — Tested and proven in hundreds of production environments around the globe.
• Stability — IBM owns ProtecTIER and is committed to providing continuous R&D to develop and deliver innovative and timely solutions to meet your data protection challenges.

Combining deduplication and replication technologies

ProtecTIER’s native replication technology enables virtual tape cartridges to be replicated to a remote location for enhanced disaster recovery and business continuity. By eliminating the need to transport physical tape cartridges, data can be recovered faster and more reliably enabling systems to get back online quicker in the event of a disaster or major system outage.

ProtecTIER native replication technology provides:

• Dramatic improvements in the Disaster Recovery operations through automated electronic replication of data to remote DR site.
• Replication leverages deduplication technology in the disk repositories at both the primary and secondary sites to lower bandwidth requirements.
• Greatly reducing bandwidth lowers overall costs and enables more applications and data to be protected with replication.
• Inline deduplication enables replication to occur concurrently with backup operations increasing responsiveness and ability to restore data quickly when needed.
• Replicated “virtual” tape cartridges can then be cloned to physical tape at remote site to eliminate the need to transport physical tapes and associated security risks.