Atempo, a provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving offerings, has enhanced deduplication capabilities and expanded virtualisation support for Time Navigator, a backup and recovery offering.
The new deduplication features offer further usability and performance in optimising storage systems and support remote and branch offices, the company said.
According to Atempo, the enhanced block-level deduplication in Time Navigator is featured in the new version of the software’s Atempo HyperStream Server module. New usability capabilities include an enhanced graphical user interface for administration and configuration of the product and a new interface that displays administrator statistics on backup and deduplication history.
The performance improvements include enhanced automation in the movement of deduplicated backup data from disk to tape, replication of a HyperStream server over the WAN, as well as the ability to perform data restorations from the closest HyperStream server for optimal speed, the company said.
Atempo said that the Time Navigator’s software features an enhancement of the VMware agent with vSphere support and new Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen agents that offer virtual machine backup and restoration capabilities.
The HyperStream Server is a stream-oriented storage service that allows backup data to be sent to a storage server across high and low bandwidth connections, while performing block-level deduplication across and within the streams. It supports block-level replication from one unit to another over local- or wide- area network connections. Time Navigator supports high speed data restoration from any point in time and combines data protection and storage security, the company said.
Marylise Tauzia, director of product management and marketing at Atempo, said: “Data deduplication and virtualisation are recognised as two of the most important technologies impacting the data protection market today, and Atempo Time Navigator provides customers with a single comprehensive solution in both areas.”
