The new portfolio includes improved deduplication and compression technology that works across a variety of storage arrays, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior principal technical product manager of the Vx File System (VxFS) and Cloud business at Symantec. "There are compression solutions in the arrays and there are deduplication solutions at the NAS [network attached storage] vendor layer or in the array, but there’s nothing that can use the same technology across all of these different platforms and infrastructures, and that is really what we’re bringing," Wahlberg said.
With Veritas Storage Foundation, Symantec has seen file compression rates of as much as 70% and deduplication rates from 50% to 80%, he said. The more an enterprise can compress and deduplicate data, the longer its storage capacity lasts. Symantec is also offering storage templates to help customers provision and deploy storage more quickly, says Reynolds.
"They can basically provision storage based on the requirements of the application that they are bringing up online," he says, explaining that mission-critical apps could be attached to high-performance storage with automatic replication of data, while less important apps could run on less expensive Fibre Channel or SATA drives and not require replication.
The idea behind deploying a private cloud on existing IT is to take advantage of cloud benefits without the expense and disruption of new cloud infrastructure, says Don Angspatt, VP of product management in Symantec’s storage and availability management group. "There are a number of vendors out there saying, ‘Buy our cloud platform, buy our cloud-in-a-box,'" Angspatt says. "But the reality of the day is that no one’s going to spend another hundred million bucks when they have a billion dollars of a legacy investment that is underutilized."
Products in the portfolio will become available in early December, according to Symantec.
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