Quantum: Open Standards Backup and Archive for Virtualized Environments Podcast - Episode 181

Summary: In episode 181, Douglas Brown interviews Casey Burns, Product Marketing Manager, Virtual Solutions at Quantum. Casey and Douglas discuss the Quantum enterprise solution for backup and archive for virtualized environments, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About vmPRO 3.1: Simple, Open Standards Backup and Archive for Virtualized Environments Quantum recently announced vmPRO 3.1, which offers enhancements to the popular Quantum vmPRO™ software that bring open standard data protection and archive capabilities to virtualized environments. In addition to disk or cloud, vmPRO 3.1 now leverages Scalar LTFS tape technology to provide user-accessible, searchable archive capabilities for VMware data. The new software also greatly simplifies management while improving performance and workload efficiency for backing up virtual machines in their native VMware (VMDK) format. Quantum also announced the new DXi V4000, which is an all-software, all-virtual data protection solution which provides 24 TB of usable capacity for deduplication, encryption and replication. DXi V4000 replicates to DXi® appliances as well as Q-Cloud, Quantum’s cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. Combined with vmPRO 3.1, the DXi V-Series provides a simple, native, all-virtual data protection solution that works with a customer’s existing environment. Additional Details for vmPRO 3.1 User-Accessible, Searchable Data Protection and Archive in Native VMware Format: Quantum vmPRO 3.1 enables companies to access and recover backup and archive VM data from disk, tape or cloud across its lifecycle. By backing up VMs in native state, users can instantly boot VMs from any remote site, including the cloud, without requiring a proprietary backup application, ensuring future-proof flexibility to adopt the latest backup technology. VMware Data Protection Made Simple: Quantum vmPRO is designed to provide easy deployment for backup and recovery, allowing users to browse, search and retrieve individual files from any standard file browser with drag and drop simplicity. New features to reduce administrative time include automatic configuration protection and aggregated management for multiple Quantum vmPRO virtual appliance deployments. Significantly Higher Performance: Quantum vmPRO 3.1 achieves dramatically improved performance with the addition of HotAdd support from VMware, as well as the ability to perform multiple backup jobs simultaneously, and includes enhancements to its patented technology to efficiently read only what is truly necessary for a backup job. Improved Management: Customers can use Quantum Vision™ software to initiate and push upgrades to Quantum vmPRO for better overall management of VM backups. About Casey Burns Casey Burns is Quantum’s Product Marketing Manager, Virtual Solutions. Casey has extensive experience and knowledge in the storage industry, and a professional focus in the areas of data deduplication and virtualization. His writing has appeared in publications including Data Center Post, Computer Technology Review, and Virtualization Review.