All appliances are not created equal. This is no surprise but what is surprising is how very different appliances can be—even when they are in the category of “purpose built backup and recovery appliances.”
The ‘purpose built” category covers appliances that are developed from enclosures from one manufacturer, backup and recovery software from another vendor, with components that come from the supplier du jour. Sure, the finished product has been built to provide backup and recovery, but what if something breaks? You, as a customer may find yourself waiting while the manufacturer whose name is on the box circles around with the various companies that provided the parts, before you get the solution backup and running.
It makes sense to consider an alternative.
What if you could buy a purpose built appliance engineered from the inside out by a single company? Such an appliance would start with the hard drive and firmware, moves up to the enclosure in a high availability configuration, the software and then connects to the company’s global cloud infrastructure/data center. Users would expect this approach to deliver cost efficiencies and a faster total cost of ownership, TCO. What they may not anticipate is that it also means the purpose built appliance becomes a hybrid cloud appliance, making it easy and efficient for users to scale based upon need.
There are other efficiencies that can change the way you manage data with when you buy an appliance from a company who builds the key components. These appliances are tuned, tested optimized and certified to deliver blazing fast performance. Here again, this work is performed by the people who built the drives, software, components, and enclosures. No one is better suited to build and deliver a purpose built appliance.
Even backup target appliances (BTAs), that are built for the purpose of providing backup destination for heterogeneous applications, can differ dramatically when they are purchased from a vertically integrated builder of data protection appliances. The Seagate EVault Backup Target Appliance can be tuned and optimized for a combination of EVault backup and recovery software and an app with a native backup application.
That tuning is significant because it is cost effective to leverage a single appliance for both as well as from purchase and manageability standpoints. A further efficiency, from the storage administrator’s point of view, is that monitoring and management of the appliance is handled centrally.
Seagate’s EVault BTA
The Seagate EVault BTA is a vertically integrated purpose built backup and recovery appliance that offers an unprecedented level of reporting and visibility to users on the health of backup appliances and cloud services. As result Seagate will know of trouble before you do and will proactively resolve issues and provide a seamless experience in the event of power outages or other similar events that may disrupt your backup or protection. This enhances the durability and availability of user data.
Because Seagate is building data protection appliances from the inside out it is able to drive innovation through the storage stack. Unlike other vendors Seagate can leverage its unique strengths at drive level and innovate at the enclosure, software and cloud layers to build unique value for our customers and reduce user’s TCO for data protection.
We think this is the best way of solving your data challenges. After all, shouldn’t a purpose built backup and recovery appliance be built for the purpose of providing a solution that meets all of your requirements and offers hybrid cloud data protection?
Visit the product page on Seagate’s website to learn more about the Seagate EVault Hybrid Cloud Data Protection appliances and how they can accelerate your drive to growth.
