VTL Software promotes data visibility and protection.
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Clareti® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) v2.0 delivers integrated data protection management and heterogeneous tape library consolidation. Offering visibility, scalability, and management for existing third-party tape backup application environments, solution combines storage analytics and reporting. Software is built on scalable multi-node architecture and enables users to monitor resource usage and system fidelity in detail as their backup data grows.
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Gresham Enterprise Storage Brings Unprecedented Visibility to Data Protection with Clareti VTL Version 2.0
AUSTIN, Texas, April 10 -- Gresham Enterprise Storage, the leading developer of data protection solutions with vision, today announced Gresham Clareti(R) Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Version 2.0, the industry's first VTL solution to deliver integrated data protection management and heterogeneous tape library consolidation. The new version of Gresham's open systems VTL brings visibility, scalability, and manageability to existing third-party tape backup application environments by combining comprehensive storage analytics and reporting with advanced VTL features. Built on a scalable multi-node architecture, Gresham Clareti VTL minimizes the management costs associated with backup and restore operations in enterprise environments.
"Most IT shops still have very poor visibility and control over how and why their data protection environment behaves the way it does," said Brad O'Neill, senior analyst, Taneja Group. "A VTL solution like Gresham's, which provides built-in data protection management insight, will definitely garner positive attention from customers grappling with these issues."
As their backup data grows, customers using Gresham Clareti VTL can monitor resource usage and system fidelity in detail, enabling predictive capacity allocation and maximum uptime. VTL performance is scaled by stacking more nodes in parallel; the disk cache can be expanded by simply provisioning more disk space to the InfiniCache(TM) disk cache; and on the back end, physical tape capacity and performance can be added by adding more drives, libraries or media as needed.
Integrated Data Protection Management Delivers Visibility
"Customers have told us that they need insight into their backup operations, flexible scalability to support their massive data growth and retention cycles, and consolidated system management that eliminates obsolescence by enabling them to predict how and when to scale their system architecture in response to their users' needs. That's exactly what Clareti VTL Version 2.0 delivers," said Keith Summers, managing director of Gresham Enterprise Storage. "By designing the Clareti VTL system from the ground up to handle all aspects of enterprise tape device and media management, we believe we have raised the bar for virtual tape library solutions."
The storage analytics built into Gresham Clareti VTL are driven by the integrated InsightEngine(TM) application, a comprehensive index that monitors the federated backup system in real time and retains historical data for more than 100 parameters for real and virtual operations, devices, and media. Detailed reports on all backup and restore operations enables administrators to make proactive decisions regarding resource allocation and system health.
Scalable Node-Based Architecture
The Gresham Clareti VTL solution's new stackable node-based architecture supports fast, transparent scalability, allowing multiple nodes to present a single VTL image to the backup software for centralized management. Nodes can be stacked horizontally to expand performance, with each node adding two additional inbound and outbound 4GB Fibre Channel ports. To expand capacity, additional disk space can be allocated to the InfiniCache, which immediately assumes management of it.
Tape Library Consolidation
Unlike other VTL solutions on the market today, Gresham Clareti VTL facilitates tape library consolidation. With Clareti VTL, both heterogeneous physical tape libraries and other vendors' heterogeneous VTLs can be presented for management as a single VTL device to the backup software, while an easy-to-use web-based graphical user interface provides granular visibility and centralized management of the disparate physical and logical devices.
"With the explosive growth of data and compliance regulations, storage administrators are under enormous pressure to store more data longer, meet recovery objectives, and protect data assets," said Dave Russell, research vice president, Gartner. "To this end, solutions that both expand existing core functionality and build in new features to provide ever-deeper visibility to maximize operational efficiencies will better enable businesses to meet their evolving storage management needs."
Branding and Availability
Version 1.0 of Gresham's open systems VTL solution was known as the Storage Consolidation Platform, or SCP; last fall Diogenes Labs ranked SCP second in a field of 13 competing VTLs. With version 2.0, Gresham has brought the product into its established and vision-focused Clareti brand.
Gresham Clareti VTL 2.0 will be available at the end of Q2.
About Gresham Enterprise Storage
Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global 500 and the world's largest data centers, use Gresham Clareti VTL and Clareti EDT solutions to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively to gain a competitive edge in some of the most challenging market sectors, including banking and finance. For more information, please visit http://www.greshamstorage.com/.
