Enterprise Backup Appliances 3100, 2100, 1100, and 800 from STORServer took four out of five top positions in the DCIG 2012 Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide. DCIG evaluated 66 products before placing the EBA3100 in a category of its own.
On the heels of the honors bestowed by analyst firm DCIG and its 2012 Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide comes new and updated models of the company’s enterprise, entry-level and Instant Restore appliance lines.
“We’re excited to unveil our new models that offer an even more robust set of features, automation and simplification for our customers,” says STORServer president and CEO Bill Smoldt. “We will continue working closely with IBM to focus on the enterprise quality of our appliances and offer an appliance for every budget and environment.”
New Backup Appliances
STORServer offers a complete suite of enterprise backup appliances, plus software and services for IBM TSM customers that solve today’s backup, archive, and disaster recovery challenges.†The company’s original appliance approach to data protection is distributed through a certified reseller channel of more than 200 sales organizations. †
The STORServer Enterprise Backup Appliances released since the Sept. 5 DCIG rankings are three updates for STORServer’s certified resellers:
- BA601 and BA701 – The BA601 features 1.5 TB †of storage pool built in and optional 6 or 9 TBs of internal storage allowable. It will accept up to 1 TB of daily changes. The BA701 features 4 TB of storage pool built-in and optional 10 or 15 TB of internal storage allowable. It will accept up to 2 TB of daily changes. Each model will allow for one base disk shelf and expansion shelves along with one optional tape library. Each model uses either cost-effective base client and agent licensing or a capacity licensing option. Both offer disaster recovery options that include another replicated appliance, remote tape, or disk and cloud.
- Consolidated Enterprise Backup Appliances (EBA) – These solutions implement “green” M4 IBM servers, simplify configurations, include three times larger daily change rate improvements, and offer even larger storage choices:
- EBA802 – This is designed for any office or data center (replaces the 801 and 851 models).
- EBA1202 – Aimed at larger offices and data centers with remote branches (replaces the 1102 model).
- EBA2202 – Targeted for organizations with up to 100 TB of data storage (replaces the 2102 and 2502 models).
- EBA3202 – Sized for huge daily changes and very large storage needs (replaces the 3102 and 3501 models).
- Single Instant Restore (IR) Appliance – Streamlined with an even more reduced price for SMBs working primarily with Windows or Linux environments is the IR501. Offers up to 11 TV of data storage space for a customer environment (approximately 3 TB of data) and connectivity for one base disk array and expansion shelf (a total 40 TB repository). Disaster recovery options include remote disk or replication to a secondary IR Appliance, or to the BA or EBA.
The Enterprise Backup Appliance lines, which include full data deduplication (both target and source) across all models start at $18,999 for the EBA802, $29,919 for the EBA1202, $53,919 for the EBA2202 and a starting price for the EBA3202 of $110,180.
Pricing does not include licensing options, further disk or tape storage, or the customer’s desired disaster recovery options. Models are sized for customers as one-appliance solutions.
Starting pricing includes STORServer’s first sub $10,000 Backup Appliance with the BA601 MSRP set at $9,898. The BA701 pricing begins at $14,499.
