Quantum DXi4510 review

More medium/large than SMB

Being in a SMB/OMB with 10+ users + 3 offsite ,exchange scanners etc.

I can just seeing the conversation with my boss about a £8.5k bit of kit plus installation etc etc.

Ain't going to happen

By petermalins on 6 Sep 2010

Size of an SMB

I doubt if such a small number of users would generate enough backup data to make deduplication worthwhile.

Don't forget, the term SMB can cover businesses of up to 500 users.

By DaveMitchell on 6 Sep 2010

We have many medium size business' looking for deduplication devices which will act as a NAS (for Vmware) and VTL for agent based backups. The most important feature is replication so that they can copy data over quite thin links such as MPLS. So far we have deployed HP D2D devices which have been problematic due to their method of replication but will soon be using Data Domain instead. DD are still quite expensive (as you would expect as part of EMC) but far more effective. I'm not sure I will get much interest from a Quantum especially as it is based on a Dell Server (we are a HP house).

By Dr_Aspirin on 10 Sep 2010

HP D2D replication

@Dr_Aspirin - what problems are you having with HP's method of replication?

By DaveMitchell on 11 Sep 2010