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Ross Parker – Sales Director, Northern Europe

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Agenda

HP & FalconStor announcement

Background

What is the HP VTL appliance?

What benefits does it deliver?

Who are the target customers?

Who can I contact with an opportunity?

Questions

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HP & FalconStor Announcement

June 2004 – HP & FalconStor announced the Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) Certification of VirtualTape Library (VTL) Software 

The HP StorageWorks EBS certification;defines best practices and solutions for addressing backup

and recovery issues facing storage administrators. includes FalconStor’s VirtualTape Library (VTL) software

with HP OpenView Storage Data Protector, HP ProLiant DL580 server, HP StorageWorks MSA1000 disk array and HP StorageWorks ESL E-series tape libraries

designed to deliver a complete, enterprise-class data protection solution. 

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Disk Storage Used for Data Protection

The move to disk-based backup and recovery is occurring rapidly, growing to $5B in 2005

“Time to Recovery” is the real business driver

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Disk and Tape Pricing Trend

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What is the HP VTL solution?

VTL - allows 3rd party backup software to perform backup/restore to a disk-based ‘virtual tape/library’ over high-speed FC or IP SANs.

Emulates a large number of industry standard tape libraries and tapes drives from varying major vendors

The base system has the ability to support up to: 10 concurrent backup hosts 50 concurrent backup or restore sessions 50 virtual tape drives or 20 virtual tape libraries 100 virtual tape cartridges

The VTL can import / export to physical tape libraries The VTL solution can replicate data over IP to an independent

site

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The HP VTL Solution Overview

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Customer Pain: Time Allocation

Customers increasingly say they spend too much time doing storage operations per week:

(in order of consumption)

1. Backup operations

2. Provisioning storage

3. Managing tape libraries

4. Managing storage networks

5. Volume and file management

6. Archiving/HSM

7. Capacity planning

8. Disaster recovery management/testing

9. Monitor storage array failures

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Customer IT Challenges

Reliability Issues Experiencing backup/restore failures due to robotic failure or media error

Performance Issues Backup window is shrinking

the fastest tape drive (LTO) can perform backup @ 30 MB/s (with optimal compression)

Restore is MUCH too slow (less than half the speed of backup)

Manageability/Staffing Issues Difficult to partition and share large tape libraries Can not centrally manage backup resources (Tape Drives/Libraries) Need to provision virtualised tape drive/library to Backup Server over FC or IP

SAN

Availability Issues Need to maximize operating efficiency without compromising the investment in

existing backup software and policy

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VTL ApplianceCustomer/Business Benefits

Reliability Eliminates robotic failure or media error Active-Active cluster/disk mirroring delivers highest levels of fault tolerance

Performance Achieves backup/restore speeds in excess of 100 MB/s

Manageability Java-based Management Console provides centralized management Provisions Virtual Tape Drive/Library over FC or IP SAN

Availability Re-use/leverage existing backup device Eliminates need to reconfigure the existing backup software/policy Virtual Tape Drive/Library can be accessed over any IP network

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Example of Target Customers

Problems meeting the backup window

Looking for faster restore’s for file & applications

Experienced excessive tape media, drive and robotic failures

Need to add tape drives as required

Want off-site tape vaulting

Require a solution that fits with the existing infrastructure

Interested in the overall benefits of D2D2T backup

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Who to contact?

InTechnology HP Account Manager

FalconStor Account Managers (Ross Parker / Patrick Adams)

HP Account Manager

HP Whitepaper on VTL

Information on websites http://hp.com/go/ebs http://www.falconstor.com/

HPEBSCertification.asp

Thank you.

Any questions?