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| Hifn Partners with Cofio Software Hifn announces a partnership with Cofio Software to create advanced Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solutions for Small and Medium Enterprise Customers. The Hifn-Cofio VTL platform leverages Hifn's Express DR data reduction cards and Cofio's ViStor VTL software to create backup solutions that deliver VTL performance with the industry's only hardware-accelerated capacity optimization. ViStor 2.0 VTL platform, incorporating Hifn's Express DR card technology, provides an enterprise-class, yet cost-effective, VTL solution designed to meet the performance, reliability and affordability requirements of the SME secondary storage market. The combination of disk-based backup, Hifn's hardware-advantaged and patented capacity optimization technology, and Cofio's powerful ViStor VTL software enables SMB and SME customers to dramatically improve their backup reliability, ensure data integrity and shrink the backup window while leveraging their existing backup infrastructure, polices and procedures. Hifn's Express DR cards are the industry's first enterprise-class data storage reduction accelerators, providing VTL ISVs with a unique go-to-market advantage with an easy-to-integrate capacity optimization solution that leverages multiple processors to deliver unprecedented compression hardware-offload performance with high reliability and intelligent data reduction features. Designed for critical data storage server environments ranging from continuous data protection (CDP) to network-attached storage and storage area networks (NAS and SAN) and virtual tape library applications (VTL), Express DR improves overall performance and the system total cost of ownership (TCO) while ensuring zero-defect data. The Express DR product line includes Hifn's powerful DR 250 and 255 cards, the industry's first cards that accelerate hashing, compression and encryption algorithms in hardware to off-load the heavy lifting functions and speed up performance to provide multi-gigabit acceleration functions for today's most demanding data de-duplication and data reduction applications. Cofio's ViStor VTL emulates a physical tape library, allowing backups to travel from disk to disk, speed up backup and restore times, and reduce TCO by seamlessly integrating with an existing backup infrastructure. ViStor provides the ability to split the VTL into multiple libraries, allowing several backup applications to share the same disk resource, and to stage disks to ViStor for centralized backups. The ability to co-exist in the iSCSI and FC worlds gives ViStor a unique edge over other solutions. ViStor is targeted at the system integrator and OEM market, enabling them to extend their disk solution offerings. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |