HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Benefit

The following features and benefits apply to all HPE StoreOnce models. Where differences exist between models and generations, they are explained in the description of the benefit.

Scaling Up and Scaling Out Capacity Across the Enterprise

Keeping pace with data growth, HPE StoreOnce systems span from an entry level 18 TB model to an enterprise class model with over 1 PB that can be expanded over 3 PB usable capacity with Cloud Bank Storage.

Choose from dedicated backup appliances to match the capacity and performance requirements of larger offices and data center deployments or virtual appliances utilizing existing infrastructures for virtualized environments and smaller and remote offices. StoreOnce deduplication can be extended cloud and on-premises object storage to create a hybrid backup infrastructure to increase capacity and reduce the cost of backup data that requires extended retention times.

Lowering the Cost of Data Protection by Reducing Your Backup Data Storage Needs

HPE StoreOnce data reduction reduces the storage capacity required to store backup data sets for substantial savings on storage hardware, power consumption and management costs without impacting backup performance. This storage efficiency allows restore points to be retained for longer for greater backup data accessibility and rapid restore of lost or corrupt data.

HPE StoreOnce deduplication also enables network efficient offsite restore points by reducing the amount of data that needs to be replicated, enabling the use of lower bandwidth, lower cost links to transmit data offsite. This opens the way to cost-effective centralized backup from remote sites or branch offices, and delivers a consolidated disaster recovery solution for the data center.

Meeting Shrinking Backup Windows

Industry leading performance – protect large amounts of data within short backup windows with native high performance or the enhanced speed of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst. Reduce the risk with industry-leading backup speeds of up to 105 TB/hr* you can shrink backup windows and meet the most stringent SLAs.

You can enhance performance by deduplicating anywhere; at the application source or at the backup server or at the target HPE StoreOnce System. Federated Deduplication means you can deduplicate where it makes sense for your business, not where technology vendor limitations mandate. Federated Deduplication is available across all HPE StoreOnce systems, in conjunction with all applications that support StoreOnce Catalyst.

Reducing the Time to Restore Data

High speed backup is important, but when system failure strikes being able to restore your data in the shortest time possible is critical to minimizing downtime. That’s why HPE StoreOnce offers industry-leading restore speeds.

Freeing up Your IT Resources

Reduce the time spent managing multiple data protection devices and processes and free-up IT resources by consolidating and automating your backup data onto HPE StoreOnce systems. For organizations that have branch and small offices, HPE StoreOnce helps you protect the data at remote sites. You can eliminate the need for dedicated hardware if you use StoreOnce VSA at these sites.

Lowering the Cost of Long-Term Backup Data Retention

Cloud Bank Storage extends the usable capacity of StoreOnce by combining low object storage costs with StoreOnce deduplication in a hybrid cloud solution. This massively reduces the storage costs of long-term backup data retention and enables off site data protection without investing in offsite facilities. This is delivered by an extension to StoreOnce Catalyst that leverages public cloud and/or private object storage. This external object storage is used to provide capacity to the Catalyst Cloud Bank Store. This integrates seamlessly into existing workflows. Backup data is written to a Catalyst Store and then, within the policy of the writing application, all or some of this backup data is copied to the Catalyst Cloud Bank Store for long term retention.

Reducing the Risk to Data at Rest and Data in Flight

HPE StoreOnce security provides data at rest and data in flight encryption which prevents unauthorized access to data on disk that has been lost, stolen, or discarded, as well as, data being transmitted between devices. It also offers secure erase functionality to prevent expired backups being accessed. These functions can be configured on an application or store basis and are not restricted to the whole appliance.

Data in flight encryption is supported to secure links between devices for StoreOnce replication, Catalyst Copy and Catalyst backup operations. It is not recommended to use IPsec if performing regular restores (including Veeam Backup Copy Jobs) or tape offloads. It is possible write performance may be impacted when using IPsec, however performance improvements should be seen after the first backup.

Data in Flight encryption via IPSec is supported on StoreOnce Catalyst only. Using data in flight encryption for VTL direct backup operations to the StoreOnce System over a local network is not supported due to the performance impact.