Sunnyvale, Calif. — Network Appliance Inc. is making its NetApp advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication available for its FAS primary and NearStore secondary storage systems.
The application helps customers achieve the cost benefits of deduplication across a wide variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and genomic data.
NetApp A-SIS deduplication technology has been part of the company’s SnapVault for NetBackup from Symantec product. Now it’s being made available for NetApp storage systems and can be deployed with a wide range of data types.
A-SIS will be free on NetApp’s NearStore R200 appliance, and as a $3,000 option for its FAS appliances.
Deduplication can be enabled on these systems with one simple command. It runs seamlessly in the background, with virtually no read/write performance overhead, and is entirely application transparent.
NetApp A-SIS deduplication is said by the company to reduce capital expenditures and management costs of users by dramatically reducing the amount of storage they need to purchase and manage.
In a news release NetApp said CommVault has tested A-SIS deduplication with CommVault backup software that suggests users can achieve up to a 20:1 space savings over traditional models, with the possibility of experiencing even greater compression ratios over time.