This product allows access to a cloud storage using the NFS/SMB protocols.
It provides a "shared folder" that can be accessed with the NFS/SMB protocols, performs a deduplication and compression on the data that is written to this shard folder, and stores the data in a local storage (cache). After that, the data is transferred to a cloud storage in the background.
Figure 1.1 Overview of System with This Product Installed
This product provides the following advantages:
Reduce operation and maintenance costs related to the use of tapes by changing the backup location for data from tapes to a cloud storage
Reduce the total cost compared to storing backup data on a tape and transporting the tape to a remote location, by storing data in a cloud storage for simple disaster recovery
Main Features
You can continue using your current backup software to back up data to a cloud storage, simply by changing the data storage destination to the shared folders that are provided by this product. There is no need to purchase additional software options or make changes to any settings in order to back up data to the cloud storage. You can back up to the cloud storage without making major changes to your current backup operations.
Even in companies in which departments use different backup software, each department can continue to use their current backup software. The backup software does not need to be changed or integrated even if the destination of the backup operation is changed to the cloud storage.
Deduplication with a variable length division method is utilized in order to remove a larger amount of duplicate data.
This product provides additional capacity licenses to control initial costs and to add capacity as needed.
