Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes the logistics and the benefits of implementing an IBM System Storage® TS7650G ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway (TS7650G Gateway) running with IBM FlashSystem™ products as back-end storage.
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This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes the benefits that are gained by integrating IBM FlashSystem™ storage with the IBM System Storage® TS7650G ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway (TS7650G Gateway), and its core value, benefits, and technological advantages.
FlashSystem products are designed to deliver the lowest latency and the highest IOPS in the market today at an economical price. FlashSystem products deliver fast response time to accelerate critical applications by using IBM MicroLatency™ (that is, roughly 100-microsecond access time), which enables faster decision making by facilitating an extreme-performance data path to accelerate critical applications. FlashSystem technology helps you achieve a true market-based competitive advantage to uncover business insights using traditional data analytics and new, big data technologies.
The TS7650G Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. ProtecTIER is the first virtual tape product to contain the data-factoring technology IBM calls IBM HyperFactor® for data deduplication. The solution offers industry-leading in-line deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 PB of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity.
IBM FlashSystem is used to accelerate ProtecTIER deployments. Figure 1 shows the key features of both products.
Figure 1. Key features of IBM FlashSystem with TS7650G Gateway
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Flash technology enhances the performance, efficiency, reliability, and design of essential enterprise applications and solutions by addressing the bottleneck in the IT process (data storage), enabling a truly optimized information infrastructure.
The IBM HyperFactor deduplication technology that is used by ProtecTIER offers a patented deduplication algorithm (that is not hash-based) that is designed to reduce storage needs by up to 25 times or more, radically reducing costs while maintaining enterprise-class data integrity.
Integrating the IBM FlashSystem with IBM ProtecTIER optimizes storage utilization by using ProtecTIER Deduplication technology, and implementing robust disaster recovery environments and data replication by using the ProtecTIER capabilities.
Integrating IBM FlashSystem with IBM ProtecTIER provides additional capability to work with different applications in your environment, such as Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), OpenStorage (OST), or File System Interface (FSI).
Business value
IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems offer affordable, high-density, ultra low-latency, high-reliability, and scalable performance in a storage device that is both space and power-efficient. IBM FlashSystem products, which can either augment or replace traditional hard disk drive storage systems in enterprise environments, empower applications to work faster and scale further.
In addition to optimizing performance, the IBM FlashSystem family brings enterprise reliability and macro efficiency to the most demanding data centers, allowing businesses to accomplish the following goals:
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