CentricStor Version 4 named a VTL leader in independent research
Virtual Tape Appliance’s position as a leader recognized by independent cross-vendor report
Munich, February 05, 2008 —
Positioning for CentricStor as a top market leader in an independent, cross-vendor study into virtual tape appliances crowns the recent launch of Version 4 by Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
In its report published January 31st, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Open Systems Virtual Tape Libraries, Q1 2008, CentricStor from Fujitsu Siemens Computers is named by Forrester Research as a top market leader, based on evaluation of 12 vendors across 58 criteria.
In addition to a top score for its strategy, the Forrester report states that “Fujitsu Siemens Computers leads for its host support, architecture, and tape integration”.
Furthermore, the report states: “As a major systems vendor in Europe, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a solid installed base of more than 300 customers and more than 500 VTLs, mostly in large enterprises. It has solid growth in new customers and one of the highest percentages of repeat customers.”
Dr Helmut Beck, Vice President Storage at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, comments: “Being awarded a position as a leader for CentricStor Version 4 from independent research is gratifying. The Forrester report acknowledges our unique architecture, the support for both mainframe and open systems allowing real tape consolidation, and CentricStor’s capabilities for embracing tape and therefore reducing the cost of managing tape dramatically and making tape fit for ILM. Having passed 500 installations, we have grown CentricStor into a world-class enterprise storage solution.”
Version 4 of CentricStor has been specially developed to address the three major pain points that data protection managers face today:
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Continued growth of data volumes
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Data retention periods getting even longer
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The need to establish a second data center to provide greater disaster tolerance
Directly addressing all of these pain points, the new version of CentricStor provides the industry’s biggest backup capacities – starting with the biggest VTL cache, which now scales up to a massive one Petabyte – and a trebling of the number of logical volumes that can be processed in one system, from 500,000 to 1,500,000.
About CentricStor
CentricStor is the first virtual tape solution that provides intelligent data protection by storing all enterprise backup data autonomously on disk or on tape. This unique dual-target storage solution exploits the best of disk and tape in a seamless manner. Making tape fit for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), enterprise data protection can be flexibly aligned to different Service Level Agreements (SLA). CentricStor offers superior connectivity with True Tape Virtualization and enables outstanding reductions in TCO by consolidating all backup storage devices. The powerful CentricStor Grid Architecture features unmatched scalability and disaster resilience for every type of data center.
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About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT Infrastructure Provider with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and DynamicDataCenter products, services and solutions. With a platform and services portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from notebooks through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions and services offerings. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with Infrastructure Services extending coverage approximately 170 countries worldwide. Leveraging the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users. The company is a pioneer in providing environmentally conscious technology and processes, throughout the lifecycle of each product, and is a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative and Green Grid organizations. To meet stringent international standards for corporate social responsibility, Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a member of the United Nations Global Compact.
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