ProStor Systems Announces Availability of InfiniVault Model 35
ProStor Systems, the leader in enterprise-class removable disk
storage systems for business backup, archiving, and retention management, today
announced the availability of its ProStor InfiniVault® Model 35, a scalable,
long-term storage solution that offers an automated data verification capability
and more online disk than previous InfiniVault models.
Automated data verification checks the integrity of data
stored on the InfiniVault RDX® cartridges, then repairs lost data by
reconstructing the cartridge. Data verification can be manual or scheduled, and
the administrator is notified of cartridge failure. By ensuring the integrity of
data stored on the RDX cartridge, this powerful feature offers users a reason to
move long-term data retention off of tape, a medium known to suffer from data
loss.
“A crucial requirement – in fact perhaps the crucial
requirement – of any long-term data storage platform is that the data must be
able to be read or restored when needed without corruption,” said Mark Peters,
senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Tape has historically been
questionable in this area, yet frankly it does not matter whether you use tape,
disk, punch cards or yesterday’s newspaper – you must have confidence in the
integrity of your data. ProStor’s new automated data verification facility takes
the attractiveness of its
RDX removable disk storage up
another important notch.”
“The InfiniVault Model 35 is a significant step up for us,”
according to Carla Halyard, principal systems analyst at Marin County,
California. “We’re confident in the reliability and performance of InfiniVault
and RDX for our Document Management Storage solution and hope to eventually
expand the use of the InfiniVault to include our email archive and backups. The
installation was the easiest we’ve experienced in a long time, and moving to the
InfiniVault will let us reduce our annual maintenance costs and server
requirements associated with proprietary media management software we no longer
need.”
The InfiniVault Model 35 also offers users a 50 percent
performance increase – up to 270 GB/hour — over the Model 30, which it replaces
in the InfiniVault lineup. The Model 35 offers 8TB of RAID5 online disk, with
support for up to 100 TB of removable RDX disk. The boost in performance and
online disk gives users the flexibility to increase the amount of data available
for rapid access and retrieval.
ProStor InfiniVault® is the only storage system designed to
balance the need to cost-effectively manage increasing amounts of information
over extended periods of time. A combination of fixed RAID disk and RDX provide
complete data protection, continuous data access, security, and retention
management throughout the data’s extended lifespan. The Model 35 is ideal for
long-term storage and offsite storage for disaster recovery purposes for
banking/finance institutions, city and county governments, and digital video
archiving.
“We selected the InfiniVault Model 35 based on a strong
recommendation from our document management provider,” said Brian Hosier,
corporate applications manager at American Casino and Entertainment Properties,
LLC. “We were impressed with the expansion capabilities of the InfiniVault Model
35, and the improved usability compared to our previous solution. We’re planning
to use the InfiniVault to archive data from multiple applications, including two
different document management systems.”
“Our early customer success with the Model 35 demonstrates the
value of data verification and increased online disk,” according to Ian Duncan,
vice president of marketing and strategy at ProStor Systems. “Adding online disk
capacity and performance to the InfiniVault Model 35 gives our customers
increased flexibility to store data in the most appropriate tier, whether that’s
online for rapid access, nearline for timely recovery or reuse, or in the
archive tier, providing access to large amounts of data for long periods of
time.”