Date: 05/04/2011

Data reduction and security solution for primary and cloud-based storage

Exar Corporation has announced new data reduction and security solution called BitWackr solution for primary and cloud-based storage supporting OS environments of Windows and Linux. Exar says this solution offers multiple volume support, a 50% increase in I/O performance for primary storage applications and integration with the RSA key manager enabling Enterprise-level, secure storage applications. BitWackr 2.2 provides OEMs with a powerful solution that is capable of reducing data through deduplication and lossless compression across all storage tiers, enabling efficiencies in data management, capacity, power and time, claims EXAR.

"The BitWackr solution has once again broken new ground, enabling the 'secure Cloud on-ramps' necessary for companies to leverage the benefits of Cloud Storage and delivering data reduction efficiencies to primary storage," said Bob Farkaly, director of marketing, Storage Systems for Exar. "BitWackr can compress and deduplicate data providing a 2:1 or greater capacity savings, as well as encrypting the data while it traverses the network to the cloud or to on premise storage."

Exar say its patent-pending Virtual Block Device (VBD) technology allows BitWackr to remain transparent to applications, operating systems, file systems and volume managers, enabling OEMs to quickly and easily incorporate BitWackr into their storage products. As per Exar the key advantage of its BitWackr 2.2 is the use of industry-leading PCIe hardware acceleration technologies, which provides the in-line performance required for Tier-0 and Tier-1 storage deployments.