Hifn Delivers Plug-and-Play Data Deduplication for Windows(R) Servers
06 Abril 2009 - 9:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
Advanced Data Reduction Technology Enables OEMs, System Integrators
and Microsoft(R) Partners to Easily Add Deduplication, Compression
and Thin Provisioning ORLANDO, Fla., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Storage Networking World -- Hifn today announced the
BitWackr(TM) 250 and 255, advanced data reduction solutions that
enable server OEMs, Microsoft Partners and white-box server
builders to add hardware-assisted data deduplication and
compression with thin provisioning to Windows Servers.
BitWackr-powered servers seamlessly integrate with Microsoft
Windows applications that most benefit from deduplication and data
reduction, such as NAS, SharePoint and Data Protection Manager.
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Hifn's patent-pending BitWackr technology delivers real-time,
in-line deduplication and compression, reducing the amount of data
written to disk. The first capacity optimization solution that
reduces data at the point of creation, the BitWackr 250 and 255 can
significantly reduce the cost of corporate storage. In an era of IT
budgeting when "flat is the new up" the BitWackr-enabled servers
extend IT budgets by slashing both CAPEX and OPEX expenses,
reducing disk capacity requirements and purchases and extending the
useful life and ROI of existing storage, limiting the number of
RAID units that have to be managed, lowering heat dissipation and
cooling expenses, and reducing power consumption, the second
biggest cost item in the data center. "The benefits of reducing
data are tangible and all the more relevant in this economic
climate," said Benjamin S. Woo, Vice President, Enterprise Storage
Systems at IDC. "Deduplication is a very attractive technology for
this reason and Hifn has taken a new approach to it, which will
enable a broader set of customers to reap the benefits of capacity
optimization." This exciting capability is available to OEMs,
Microsoft Partners and "white box" system builders, enabling them
to create higher-value products to sell into the exploding market
for storage solutions featuring advanced data reduction. Channel
partners also have the opportunity to sell BitWackr-enabled
products throughout an organization as the technology scales from
entry-level users to SME and enterprise workgroups. "In 2008 data
deduplication was the most promising technology to address the
exploding data growth problem businesses are faced with day-to-day,
and in 2009 Hifn is extending that technology to the Windows server
community with the goal of bringing deduplication and advanced data
reduction 'to the rest of us,'" said John Matze, Vice President,
Storage System Products at Exar. "Hifn's BitWackr is data
deduplication done right, with the ability to solve the emerging
challenges of SMB and SME storage, and enabling deduplication
benefits, beyond backup applications, to start at the point of data
creation." Hifn's BitWackr 250/255 combines the company's BitWackr
advanced block-based data deduplication software with a Hifn
Express DR 250 PCI-x or 255 PCIe card that employs specialized
hardware to perform data compression and deduplication hashing
operations. The server platform-independent solution operates in a
standard Windows environment and can be installed on any system
running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Storage Server 2003 with
support for both 32- and 64-bit versions. Hifn's BitWackr
deduplication software is a simple set-it-and-forget-it solution
that operates transparently within a Windows server environment.
BitWackr-optimized storage is presented to Windows as just another
disk that may be assigned a drive letter and made available to all
Windows applications. The BitWackr-produced drive letter is the
application interface to the capacity optimization services.
Reading from and writing to the BitWackr drive letter transparently
provides compression and deduplication services to applications.
Pricing and Availability The Hifn BitWackr(TM) 250 and 255 products
are priced at $995 MSRP. Beta versions of the Hifn BitWackr
products will be available this quarter with general availability
scheduled for Q3. About Hifn On April 3, 2009 Exar Corporation
completed the previously announced acquisition of Hifn
Incorporated. For information about Hifn products and services
please go to http://www.hifn.com/. About Exar Exar Corporation is
Powering Connectivity by delivering highly differentiated silicon,
software and subsystem solutions to secure and optimize data for
storage and transmission across traditional and packet-based
networks. A comprehensive knowledge of end-user markets along with
the underlying analog and digital technologies allows Exar to offer
innovative solutions to customers in a wide range of markets from
enterprise and SMB, to consumer and industrial. Exar has locations
worldwide providing real-time customer support to drive rapid
product development. For more information about Exar, visit:
http://www.exar.com/.
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