Data Protection & Recovery
Quantum DXi Series.
Disk-based backup appliances with inline deduplication and replication — providing fast local backup and WAN-efficient replication to a secondary DXi or the cloud for DR.
Overview
The Quantum DXi Series provides disk-based backup appliances with inline deduplication, enabling enterprises to achieve tape-like economics on disk. DXi systems support OST (OpenStorage) integration with Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec, as well as CIFS/NFS for direct backup. Built-in replication with deduplication at the wire level makes DXi ideal for branch-to-data-center backup consolidation.
STME deploys DXi appliances as the disk backup target tier in backup architectures for GCC enterprises, typically as the D in a D2D2T (Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape) configuration. DXi's deduplication ratios of 20:1 to 30:1 for typical backup data sets dramatically reduce the backup storage footprint.
Key features
- Inline deduplication (no performance impact)
- CIFS/NFS/VTL protocols for broad backup software support
- Cloud-connected replication to AWS, Azure
- Veritas OST integration for NetBackup and Backup Exec
- WAN-efficient replication (deduplication before transfer)
- Encryption at rest and in flight
Specifications
Deduplication
Inline, 20:1–30:1 typical ratio
Protocols
OST, CIFS, NFS, VTL, NDMP
Capacity range
DXi 4700 to DXi 9000 series
Replication
WAN-optimized with dedup
Cloud integration
AWS S3, Azure Blob
Use cases
D2D2T backup architecture
Branch-to-DC backup consolidation
Backup deduplication
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