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New Sepaton S2100-ES3 backup and recovery appliance extends formidable performance lead and adds encryption
March 2013 by Marc Jacob
Sepaton has announced the immediate availability of the S2100-ES3 series 2925 purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) with version 7.0 software. The enterprise-class data protection platform features new processing nodes and enhanced multiprotocol network connectivity options (8-Gb Fibre Channel, 1-Gb Ethernet, and 10-Gb Ethernet) to nearly double its data ingest performance to up to 80 TB/hour, two to eight times faster than its nearest competitors. New high-performance compression cards deliver both compression and encryption of data at rest in a unified pipeline without slowing performance. The product continues to feature Hitachi Data Systems storage arrays.
Encryption of Data at Rest
Most large enterprises and government agencies have deployed separate encryption for different types or sources of data, creating an increasingly complex and costly multi-vendor key management environment. Sepaton’s new encryption of data at rest capability addresses this challenge by integrating with industry standard interoperability protocols for encryption key managers (EKM) to simplify encryption key management and significantly reduce operational costs. Furthermore, unlike competing solutions, Sepaton encrypts data at rest while maintaining its blazing fast time to safety and industry-leading backup performance.
The new Sepaton product integrates with EKMs that are compliant with industry-standard Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), enabling enterprises and government agencies to take advantage of interoperability across encryption and key management systems. The S2100-ES3 series 2925 is currently fully qualified with the RSA DPM and Thales e-Security keyAuthority 4.0 appliances.
New in Sepaton’s S2100-ES3 series 2925 purpose-built backup appliance with version 7.0 software:
Blazing Fast Performance – The S2100 appliance features HP ProLiant DL380p Gen 8-based processing nodes, Intel Xeon E5-2690, 8-core dual-CPU 2.90GHz, and 128-GB RAM DDR3 memory. It is designed to deliver guaranteed high performance; industry-leading encryption, deduplication and replication. It is built for large enterprise data volumes with high-performance Exar 1845 compression cards.
Enhanced Connectivity Options – The new nodes feature four 8-Gb Fibre Channel connections, two 8-Gb Fibre Channel connections to storage, two 10-Gb Ethernet, and
four 1-Gb Ethernet connections for faster ingest performance and multiprotocol support.
Fastest Time to Safety – The new Sepaton S2100 product features encryption of data at rest with no backup performance penalty, regardless of data type or change rate. It integrates with all OASIS KMIP compliant EKMs and is currently qualified with RSA and Thales, with more in process. It simplifies key management, reduces operational costs, and eliminates key manager vendor lock-in.
Simple, Cost Effective Implementation – Encryption can be licensed at time of purchase or enabled later, helping to reduce complexity and risk.
– Pricing and Availability
Sepaton S2100-ES3 with version 7.0 software is immediately available. List pricing for the S2100-ES3 Series 2925 starts at $355,000. The encryption option is licensed separately.
