I think the cheapest solution would be Quantum DXi's, the 6700 series are quite 
good and very fast. They do inline variable-length block-based target dedupe 
and they can be set up with replication and path-to-tape. 
If you're running NW on windows, I'd suggest using the DXI's as VTLs since 
there are some performance issues with CIFS from the DXi's. NFS works perfectly 
though.

I personally prefer DataDomain, but they are a bit expensive still.

/tony



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Fra: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] På 
vegne af Phil Myers
Sendt: 22. marts 2013 13:28
Til: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Emne: [Networker] DeDupe options

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Hi, group.

We're currently looking at options for deduplication.  Avamar looks good to us 
but it is prohibitively expensive, the quoted cost being somewhere around 
30,000 per terabyte for a 20TB data store.  We're looking to back up our 400+ 
VMWare guests using dedupe.

Would any of you have any suggestions for similar but less expensive products?  
It can be source-based or target-based, and replication would be nice.

Phil

Phil Myers
Network Administrator
Management Information Systems
pmyers2 AT conemaugh DOT org<mailto:youremail AT conemaugh DOT org>
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