Quantum brings de-duplication to branch offices

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Storage company Quantum has launched a new data protection product aimed at simplifying and securing the back-up process at an organisation's branch offices.

Its new GoVault Data Protection product is a removable storage device featuring data de-duplication, which it claims is the first removable storage device to do so.

The product is disk-based and includes a tabletop or server-embedded dock and two removable cartridges for onsite and offsite protection of data.

It also includes Windows-based backup software that handles the data de-duplication process that, according to the company, decreases the number cartridges required for backup by up to 20 times over alternative tape and disk-based products.

The average data transfer rate of the device is between 26 and 34 MB/sec, suggesting that backups will now take minutes instead of hours, according to Quantum.

"Current backup methods used by small businesses tend to be labour-intensive and can have reliability, performance and capacity issues," said Heidi Biggar, an analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group.

She said that Quantum's new product "not only addresses these challenges, but it also provides cost-effective scalability and capacity by leveraging de-duplication technology."

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