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posted on 18 June 2008 12:12

HP Turkey has introduced the D2D2500 Backup System with Dynamic Deduplication offering up to a claimed 50:1 deduplication ratio on its 3TB of disk capacity.

The D2D2500, a disk-to-disk backup system and not a virtual tape library, is a 1U enclosure that works with backup applications to backup six servers in a daily schedule with data I/O of up to 180GB/hour. There are two 1Gbit/s Ethernet ports and the device has four 3.5-inch 750GB 7,200rpm SATA drives. It has a web browser interface for management and is claimed to be affordable.

The deduplication is understood to be internally-developed by HP and to deduplicate data as it is ingested, not after ingestion in a post-processing style.

There is also a larger D2D4000 system. This lives in a 2U rack enclosure and is for small and medium data centers, coming with either 4.5 or 9TB of disk capacity. It can ingest data at up to 288GB/hour through dual 1Gbit/s iSCSI or dual 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports and HP suggests it can backup 16 servers simultaneously. This model comes with RAID 6 data protection.

The servers can run either Windows using MS iSCSI initiator or  Linux using the OpeniSCSI initiator.

The D2D2500 is priced from $6,808 in Turkey plus KDV tax. The D2D4000 is priced from $20,110 plus local tax.

The appearance on a Turkish HP web site suggests there was going to be a global launch which, for some reason, has been delayed.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}