Idealstor Teralyte
The Idealstor Teralyte was designed with the small to medium sized business in mind and for the first time offers a truly portable disk backup solution. The Teralyte combines the speed of SATA disks with the portability of tape by using disk media for both backup and offsite storage. Teralyte uses nonproprietary hard drives allowing SMB's to use any capacity/manufacturer SATA disk as locally attached removable disk backup media. These disks can then be left in the system for local storage or they can be physically removed, like a tape for offsite storage and disaster recovery.
For years storage companies have claimed that disk to disk backup was an ideal solution for small to medium sized businesses. As data increased, the higher seek times, larger capacities and decreasing costs have led many SMB's to move to some sort of disk backup solution. The problem for the SMB has been that even though disk has made the backup/restore process faster, companies still needed to rely on tape for offsite backup.
The Idealstor Teralyte was designed with the SMB in mind and for the first time offers a truly portable disk backup solution. The Teralyte combines the speed of SATA disks with the portability of tape by using disk media for both backup and offsite storage. Teralyte uses nonproprietary hard drives allowing SMB's to use any capacity/manufacturer SATA disk as locally attached removable disk backup media. These disks can then be left in the system for local storage or they can be physically removed, like a tape for offsite storage and disaster recovery.
Ejectable Disk Backup
Non-proprietary SATA disks are used as the backup and offsite media. Teralyte uses a combination of Idealstor software and hardware to provide for safe removal of the backup disks.
Faster Recovery Time
SATA disks use Serial technology to quickly transfer data. In addition, SATA disks use native command queuing to efficiently access data stored on the SATA platter.
Largest Capacity
Teralyte uses any capacity SATA disk on the market. Current capacities are 750GB with 1TB expected in 2007. Tape just can't compete.
Bundled Backup Software
Teralyte comes bundled with iBac 4.0 as a backup alternative. iBac offers native format backup which makes restoring data simply drag and drop! In addition, iBac will never backup a file unless it has changed since the previous backup. In essence, iBac performs an incremental backup but the end result is a full backup making your backup window virtually disappear.
- Can attach directly to any Windows Server or PC via a controller provided by Idealstor.
- Use removable disk media in place of tape. Disk offers higher transfer rates, capacities and are far more reliable than tape backup.
- Disks are prepared for safe removal using Idealstor's Disk Management software. In addition each disk comes with the rugged Idealstor shock protective caddy and carrying case.
- Data can be replicated to the other disks in the system or physically removed to be taken offsite for backup and disaster recovery.
- SATA disks offer transfer rates of up to 300MB/second per disk. Simultaneous backups can be run on our multiple drive Teralyte solutions.
- Drives that are warranted up to 5 years by industry leading drive manufacturers. Compare that to your tapes and the annual cost savings in media alone is staggering.
- Tape Free Backup - use disk like tape as offsite backup media
- Designed for the SMB - Easy to use and integrate into your network. Eliminate costly disk and tape backup solutions
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership than disk and tape alternatives
- One stage backup and restore - Idealstor SATA eliminates the need to stage backups and restores from disk to tape
- Free Backup Software - iBac 4.0 makes backup easy and affordable.
- Cost of disk continues to drop while capacities continue to increase. Teralyte takes advantage of both providing a cost effective and scalable storage and backup solution
- Eliminate the need to re-tension tape media, replace tapes every year and eliminate failed backups and restores due to data not being properly written on your tapes.
- Capacity - Up to 750GB/disk. Compared to a similar tape backup solution and the capacity alone makes disk the obvious choice.
