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Pancetera announces OEM Partnership with i365
November 2010 by Marc Jacob
Addressing the challenges VMware administrators face in managing and storing data in virtual environments, Pancetera, a developer of technology for accelerating I/O, today announced a partnership with i365, A Seagate Company, that will help IT managers cut virtual machine (VM) backup time from hours to minutes and reductions of data transfer between 50-80 percent. Under the terms of the agreement, i365’s EVault Cloud-Connected data protection solutions will embed Pancetera’s Unite virtual appliance with SmartRead ™ technology. This combination will provide an ‘industry first’ for VMware customers – a single virtual appliance to cost-effectively backup VMs onsite, across the WAN and into the cloud.
VM backup is a challenge for most organisations, primarily due to the sheer size of the VMs. The ability to reduce data I/O is critical in virtual environments where a complete snapshot of all the data can require multiple terabytes of data to be backed up every time, creating performance bottlenecks that impact business productivity.
Today’s available options to move VMs to the cloud for disaster recovery purposes have caused a tremendous burden on the network infrastructure – making it difficult and expensive to effectively scale. i365 selected Pancetera’s technology solution to help solve these challenges. The combined solution reduces the complexity and cost associated with backing up and managing virtual data. VMware administrators can for the first time achieve full image backup across the WAN with file recovery from the cloud. Additionally, the combined solution manages and optimises all backup and recovery and requires no staged backups or agents in the VM, allowing customers to save money as there is no need to deploy proxy storage.
Pancetera’s flagship product, Pancetera Unite, eliminates storage virtualisation management challenges while allowing IT managers to continue to use the enterprise solutions they already have. Pancetera’s SmartRead ™ technology dramatically reduces the storage and network I/O, leading to more efficient utilisation of existing enterprise infrastructure and allowing for higher VM density per server.
