SEPATON Overview for RISTE

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SEPATON Overview for RISTE

• May 26th, 2005

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Agenda

• About SEPATON
• Customer Environments
• The S2100
• Customers
• Summary

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About SEPATON
Mission Provide solutions which protect a
customers business application data through
non-disruptive, high performance appliances which
are optimized to lower the cost of managing data.
Who are we?
Why are we here?

• Founded in 2000
• HQ Marlborough, MA
• 8 Sales Offices worldwide
• Established customer base
• Leader in Virtual Tape Libraries

• Improve backup reliability
• Reduce management cost
• Hands off operation
• Easy to use
• Cost effective

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Customer Environments
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Backup Diagram Direct Attached

• Challenges
• Must monitor every server for failed backups
• Manual tape swapping
• Zero growth potential
• Inefficient use of tape capacity
• Reduced reliability
• Complex Restores
• Potential for Human Error

Direct Attached
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Backup Diagrams LAN Attached
Benefits
Remaining Challenges

• Centralized backups
• Single point of Management
• More efficient use of tape

• Does not solve tape reliability issues
• Performance issues
• Must manually handle tapes

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Tape Reliability is an issue
How many times have you had to recover data from
tape and the data was unrecoverable as a result
of tape unreliability?
40.7
59.3
Source The Yankee Group, Reexaming Tape Media
Reliability What Customers Should Know. April,
2004
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The S2100
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The S2100 VTL Solution

• Disk-based tape library emulation
• Logically appears like a tape library but uses
  disk technology
• Supports all the most common backup applications
• Cost effective
• Hands Off operation
• Minimize use of physical tape
• Easy to use
• Central management via Web GUI
• Can see all libraries, drives and cartridges
• Wizard driven interface
• Email Home
• Reliability
• Includes redundant components and disk subsystems
• Many times more reliable than any tape system
• Central management include wizard driven GUI
• Performance
• Much faster than tape
• Scalable with the environment

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Backup diagram with a SEPATON S2100

• Primary backups directed to the S2100
• No need to swap tapes
• Backup failure rates decline dramatically
• Physical Tape Drive/Library can still be used if
  offsite copies of data are required
• Management cost reduced due to increased
  reliability and ease of use

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Customers
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Partial Customer List
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Summary
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S2100 Summary

• Cost effective solution
• Reduces management cost
• Hands Off operation
• Email home feature
• Increased backup reliability
• Fully redundant architecture
• Uses disk technology
• Scalability
• Can scale the unit as your needs change
• Non-disruptive
• Installs in minutes
• Supports most common backup applications

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Thank you and Questions