CommVault and Dell have teamed up to offer a disk-based backup, deduplication & archive system that can deliver up to 300TB, the Dell PowerVault DL.

Featuring CommVault's Simpana 8 software, it provides up to 24 TBs of internal storage capacity in a 2U form factor, with ability to scale to over 300TB.

The DL Appliance delivers end-to-end block-based deduplication and promises to achieve deduplication throughput rates up to 3 TB/hr when performing weekly backup operations.

It can backup and restores of both physical and virtual environments, with both VMware and Hyper-V protection options.

The Dell PowerVault DL Appliance can provide agent-less disk backup of up to hundreds of virtual machines reducing the amount of resources needed to protect VM infrastructures.

With cloud protection capabilities, encrypted, deduplicated backup and archive data on the DL Appliance can be extended into public cloud storage services for long term, offsite retention.

CommVault’s Simpana SnapProtect technology schedules EqualLogic hardware snapshots for application data to merge backup and restore capabilities with persistent snapshot copies for fast recovery.

The Dell PowerVault DL also provides integrated tape support availability with the Dell PowerVault TL2000, TL4000 and ML6000 tape libraries to streamline disk-to-tape data protection while increasing disaster recovery capabilities.