Streamlining Storage with CommVault Deduplication in the Dell PowerVault DL2000

Redundancy is a major contributor to sustained data growth in enterprise data centers. Regular replication, backup, and archiving using traditional tools, for example, often requires organizations to deploy significantly more storage than they actually need simply to maintain unnecessary copies of the same data across many different storage systems. The systems necessary to store this redundant data represent not only an up-front investment in hardware, deployment, and configuration, but also ongoing operational costs for power, cooling, and management.Deduplication technology, which is designed to eliminate duplicate copies of data, offers an important method of combating uncontrolled data growth. Dell and CommVault have worked together to create a backup and archive deduplication solution that combines high-performance Dell™ hardware with innovative CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software: the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault. In contrast to traditional backup and archive architectures, CommVault Simpana 8.0 can write compressed, deduplicated, and even encrypted blocks to disk targets, enabling organizations to maximize use of existing storage hardware and helping reduce the amount of data sent over the network.CommVault Simpana 8.0 also introduces the Virtual Infrastructure Agent for VMware® and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms, helping provide seamless backups in virtualized environments. Remote office servers, meanwhile, can benefit from a global deduplication strategy that reduces backup footprints before they are sent to a centralized location, helping further simplify backup and recovery processes.As administrators struggle with increasingly restricted IT budgets, they need tools that can deliver cost-effective, simplified data management. The deduplication capabilities in the Dell PowerVault DL2000 – Powered by CommVault can help overcome these challenges, offering an efficient way to consolidate data, streamline storage requirements, and control costs.