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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Quantum Corp  has announced that an integrated  DXi disk and Scalar tape solution  are expected to save Serco Global Technology Delivery $2 million in storage costs over the next five years. Serco, which delivers a range of managed and outsourced business solutions, has already benefited, reducing disk capacity needs by up to 96 per cent and decreasing restore times by a factor of five. In the last three years, Serco’s technology business has grown steadily from a 50-terabyte (TB) environment into an 800TB infrastructure. Serco expects to reach five petabytes within five years and had sought a flexible solution to protect the increasing volumes of data while reducing excessive management costs. The company identified an integrated disk- and tape-based system as the obvious answer and turned to Quantum for help. Serco now has eight Quantum  DXi8500 disk-based backup systems  and two Scalar  i500 tap...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Quantum Corp. (QTM) has increased the storage density and power savings in its DXi8500 appliances, creating disk backup and deduplication solution for enterprise customers. The DXi8500 now incorporates 3TB disk drives to deliver 50-per cent greater storage density, 42-per cent more power savings and 25-per cent higher performance. In addition, Quantum has also announced that the new DXi8500 encrypts data at rest without impacting performance, just one of several data security enhancements.  "Our customers increasingly want to keep more data for longer periods, and they have to keep it secure and manage it at a lower cost throughout the data lifecycle. They need to accomplish this while meeting increasingly demanding SLAs. Our goal is to provide the tools customers need to adapt to this changing environment with certainty," said Robert Clark, Senior Vice- President, Data Protection Group, Quantum. For More Details ...