WORM, inflight encryption and quota management among new features
NEC last week enhanced its grid storage hardware and software, HYDRAstor with the incorporation of WORM support, in-flight data encryption and quota management. In addition, the company claims that it increased the performance of HYDRAstor by 67% over previous versions.
NEC unveils grid storage architecture
The enhancements to HYDRAstor, in particular its WORM capability and encryption, make it ideal for archiving and data retention. Its HYDRAlock technology is the basis for HYDRAstor’s WORM capability and prevents the erasure or alteration of documents, e-mails and other records.
The product also features greater file system granularity, supporting a mix of resiliency classes for data protection. Software enhancements provide a more efficient communication between nodes. Existing HS8-2000 grids can now operate at 1.8TB/hour for accelerator nodes and 90TB an hour for accelerator and storage nodes.
Further, HYDRAstor now includes data encryption when data is replicated between HYDRAstor grids with NEC’s RepliGrid asynchronous replication.
The company also added application-aware deduplication of data for Tivoli Storage Manager and EMC Networker to their support for CommVault Simpana and Symantec NetBackup.
NEC also added a lower-capacity version of HYDRAstor that is available in 12TB, 24T and 36TB capacities.
And, finally HYDRAstor allows IT managers to place both hard and soft quotas on users or groups to control capacity.
