IBM Announces New Deduplication Appliance

IBM has recently unveiled a new mid-range deduplication appliance. According to this report on Computer World, the appliance will start at half the price of the its current low-end data reduction gateway. IBM also announced a new policy engine to its enterprise-class SONAS network-attached storage (NAS) array.

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"The deduplication technology comes from IBM's acquisition of Diligent Technologies Corp. in 2008. In the fall of that year, IBM brought out the first ProtecTIER product based on Diligent technology.

"And earlier this year, IBM released the ProtecTIER TS7680 gateway device for mainframes.

"The ProtecTIER TS7680 carries a price tag of over $100,000, and features two-node clustering for up to a petabyte of storage capacity per system under one management interface. By comparison, the new ProtecTIER TS7610 has a starting price of around $50,000, and is available in 4TB and 5.4TB configurations, according to Brad Johns, manager for storage marketing at IBM."

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