IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER Systems The IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER Deduplication solution meets the disk-based data protection  needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions.  The solution offers high-performance inline data deduplication, optional two-node clustering,  and up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system. Combined with IBM  storage, the ProtecTIER Gateway solution provides an optimal disk-based target for backup  and archive data. The IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER Deduplication solution can scale to meet the needs of small  businesses to an enterprise-class data protection platform. It can quickly and safely protect  business information while reducing the amount of space that is required for storage.  Customers can experience up to 25:1 storage capacity reduction.  Deploying this solution can help organizations more efficiently protect their corporate data on  disk-based storage while helping them manage the exponential growth of new data through  reduction or elimination of duplicate data in their backups.  The TS7600 solution is designed to perform the following tasks: The TS7600 ProtecTIER solution is available as the TS7650G Deduplication Gateway or the  TS7620 Deduplication Appliance Express. Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and File System  Interface (FSI) interfaces are available for virtualization of tape or emulation of CIFS/NFS file  systems.  The following features are provided under ProtecTIER V3.4:  GLYPH<SM590000> Improve backup and recovery operations without changing existing backup processes,  procedures, or policies GLYPH<SM590000> Shorten the backup window and simplify data management GLYPH<SM590000> Consolidate heterogeneous tapes and gain control of decentralized open systems data GLYPH<SM590000> Clustered-system architecture that integrates both nodes into a single chassis, eliminating  the external switches that are required to cluster previous gateway models GLYPH<SM590000> Clustered configuration rack space requirements are reduced to 2U from the previous 14U  design GLYPH<SM590000> Improvement of backup and recovery and simplifying of disaster recovery (DR) operations ' Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2018. All rights reserved. 443 15