New capacities supported
Axcient, the maker of an hybrid cloud storage appliance for backing up Windows servers and laptops, last week signed a deal with HP to use it’s converged infrastructure.
Axcient, the maker of a hybrid cloud storage appliance for backing up Windows servers and laptops, last week signed a deal with HP to use its converged infrastructure.
HP’s Converged Infrastructure consists of HP ProLiant servers, storage and networking products combined into a pool of shared resources managed through a common management platform.
In the Axcient configuration an HP server resides at the customer’s location where it backs up servers and acts as a failover system. The ProLiant-based appliance then connects to the Axcient data center where it transfers the backup data. In Axcient’s data center, all HP equipment resides.
Previously, Axcient’s systems were based on a variety of hardware. Now that Axcient’s platform is based on HP gear, customers’ storage can scale from 250GB to 20TB on one appliance. This configuration can accommodate the backup and failover of as many as seven servers.
In the cloud, storage can now scale to as much as 10PB, compared to 1PB under previous configurations.
With the deal with HP also comes a change in Axcient’s pricing. Customers can now buy the Axcient appliance for $150 per month based on capacity.
In other news, start-up CacheIQ, announced it has received $6 million in funding from 27 angel investors. The company, which is making tiering software for solid state drives, comes out of StorSpeed a shuttered start-up which was making a NAS acceleration appliance.
