Company to resell StorReduce software with its
ActiveScale™ object storage system, delivering a more efficient
data protection solution compared to traditional backup
appliances
Creating environments for data to thrive, Western Digital®
Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is relieving big
data pressures on IT managers by offering enterprises a
cost-effective and scalable backup and recovery solution for
on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. Two powerful
technologies, ActiveScale™ object storage system and StorReduce
deduplication software, provide petabyte-scale storage that
protects data efficiently, and facilitates a data forever
architecture, saving companies up to 70%¹ compared to traditional
backup appliances. With this modern approach, protected data is
stored in an open format so customers can analyze and extract
hidden value from the data to help transform businesses or achieve
new breakthroughs faster.
There’s no doubt that data is growing rapidly. This is putting
multiple pressures on IT managers to optimize budgets and
resources, reduce backup and restore times, design for regulatory
and security mandates, and more efficiently balance workloads and
applications on-premises and in the cloud. Today, traditional
backup methods such as expensive backup appliances, or magnetic
tape for long-term retention, are rendering themselves ineffective
due to the volume, velocity and variety of data.
Gartner estimates that “by 2021, 50% of organizations will
augment or replace their current backup application with another
solution, compared to what they deployed at the beginning of
2017².” Adding to such a situation is the need to create a scalable
long-term strategy that protects data that’s captured, preserved,
accessed and transformed for delivering greater insights and
intelligence through data analytics and machine learning.
“Together, Western Digital and StorReduce address many
challenges IT managers face in protecting their valuable data,”
said Phil Bullinger, general manager, Data Center Systems Business
Unit, Western Digital. “Western Digital has the breadth and depth
of products, systems and solutions, leveraging vertical innovation
and integration, and industry experience to help solve tomorrow’s
challenges today. By working with StorReduce, we are enabling
organizations to consolidate backup appliances, tape and other
unstructured data silos into a single, easy-to-manage private or
hybrid cloud solution.”
The ActiveScale object storage system bundled with StorReduce’s
scale-out deduplication software enables on-premises or hybrid
cloud-based storage for primary and secondary backups, with
throughputs and recovery speeds faster than legacy backup
appliances. The modular ActiveScale system starts at 480TB usable
and can help enable a data forever architecture, allowing for
non-disruptive upgrades, and seamless data durability across
multiple hardware generations. As your system grows and changes,
the ActiveScale and StorReduce solution can grow and change to meet
those needs without sacrificing performance, data durability or
TCO.
“We are excited to partner with Western Digital to offer our
customers a combined solution designed with the ability to maximize
storage efficiency for hybrid and private cloud environments,” said
Vanessa Wilson, CEO, StorReduce. “In today’s ever-changing IT
landscape, we are now able to provide customers with a seamless
solution built for the cloud to protect increasing amounts of data
easily and cost effectively, while also giving customers the
ability to leverage data for analytics, search, machine learning
and more.”
The combined solution is available today through Western
Digital. To learn more about this partnership, visit
www.hgst.com/storreduce. For more information about the ActiveScale
family, visit: https://www.hgst.com/products/systems.
More Information:Blog: “Are Your Backup Appliances
Multiplying Like Rabbits?”Webinar: “How to Solve Backup Appliance
Sprawl”
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. The
company is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture,
preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of
data. Everywhere data lives, from advanced data centers to mobile
sensors to personal devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver
the possibilities of data. Western Digital® data-centric solutions
are marketed under the G-Technology®, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™,
Upthere™, and WD® brands.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements regarding the StorReduce software, ActiveScale storage
system, combined solution of the two, and their expected
availability, performance, features and benefits to customers.
There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including, among
others: the StorReduce software, ActiveScale storage system, and
combined solution of the two may not perform as expected or be
available when expected; volatility in global economic conditions;
business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of
competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of
commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by
competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our
development and introduction of products based on new technologies
and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with
acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in
manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange commission (the
"SEC") and available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, including
our most recently filed periodic report to which your attention is
directed. We do not intend to update the information contained in
this release.
¹ Savings, based on StorReduce analysis, are calculated over
five years, and may vary depending upon many factors including but
not limited to: the amount and type of data stored, the frequency
with which it is stored, and the solution being replaced.
² Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and
Recovery Solutions,” Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame,
July 31, 2017.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, G-Technology,
SanDisk, Tegile, Upthere, WD, and ActiveScale are registered
trademark or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its
affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All other marks are
the property of their respective owners.
As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion
bytes and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible
capacity varies depending on operating environment. Product
specifications subject to change without notice. Not all products
are available in all regions of the world.
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