Today’s always-on computing environments place new demands on an organization’s use of secondary storage. Too many organizations discover that their expensive purpose-built backup appliances don’t provide the performance they need at restore time. Without flash, users can suffer from critical outages waiting for restores from legacy approaches to backup.
VAST’s Universal Storage systems combine breakthrough levels of storage efficiency with all-flash technology to make flash an affordable reality for every backup job. This combination provides not only fast backups; but also the fast restore performance that lets system operators minimize user impact at a cost that is comparable to hard-drive-based backup appliances.
Restore and recover in minutes, not hours
QLC flash, revolutionary data reduction, and highly efficient erasure codes bring flash to backup price points
Use one storage system for all your backup data maximizing data reduction and minimizing complexity
Breaking Decades-old Tradeoffs
Organizations have traditionally viewed backup as insurance, with administrators making backups just-in-case a user needed data restored. Users engineered systems fast enough to back up their data within the allotted window, but since any restore from disk was faster than finding and loading backup tapes they typically didn’t pay much attention to restore performance. This attitude is exemplified by the design of backup appliances. Today’s purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are optimized for cost and secondarily backup performance. A typical PBBA can backup data 4-10 times faster than it can restore. In fact, most PBBA vendors only publish backup performance specs, leaving customers to discover their restore limitations at the worst of all possible times. While system administrators value backup performance, after all, they’re the ones that make the backups, users are demanding ever shorter restore times. Backup software vendors have responded with features like instant recovery that actually run workloads from the backup repository, further increasing the need for faster storage for the backup repository.
A New Type of Storage Architecture
VAST Data’s Universal Storage is architected entirely from next-generation NVMe media that provides the foundation to implement new data reduction algorithms that deliver advanced levels of data reduction, well beyond traditional deduplication, while also servicing restores in real-time. Implemented on scale-out NVMe flash cluster architecture, VAST’s Similarity-Based Data Reduction to bring the effective cost of flash in line with HDD-based systems while delivering, NFS and S3 performance levels previously only found in Tier-1 flash storage systems.
VAST’s combination of global data reduction and QLC flash deliver dramatically better efficiency than any other backup appliance.
Complete backups of ever-growing datasets in ever-shrinking backup windows.
With all-flash, restore much faster than from disk-based backup systems.
Run dev-test workloads from the backup repository with all-flash performance.
Gather insight via data classification and e-discovery without restoring to primary storage.
VAST's multi-protocol all-flash storage powers Commvault environments with a customer's choice of NFS, SMB or S3 HTTPS access. With all-flash, customers benefit from instantaneous backup and recovery performance... and VAST's Similarity-Based data reduction allows customers to keep their Commvault-side data reduction on while still seeing as much as 6:1 additional data reduction from their VAST investment.
View Solution BriefVAST partners with Rubrik to provide secure, scalable and affordable all-flash storage for rapid backup and recovery. Keep your Rubrik data reduction on, and here VAST will uncover an additional 3:1 savings... compounding to make flash affordable for all of your backup and archive data.
View Solution BriefVAST data powers Veeam environments with a simple, high-performance NFS experience that allows customers to store, reduce and accelerate access to backup data sets in a fraction of the space that you'd have with a legacy purpose-built backup appliance. With VAST, Universal Storage can power customer backup requirements and many other applications that benefit from the end of the price vs. performance tradeoff.