StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Veritas Access Appliance compete in the storage and backup domain. StarWind shows a competitive edge in pricing and support, while Veritas stands out for feature richness despite its higher price.
Features:StarWind Virtual Tape Library provides seamless integration with major backup software, efficient data deduplication, and cost-effective solutions for virtual environments. Veritas Access Appliance offers scalable storage management, advanced data protection features, and comprehensive data management capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:StarWind Virtual Tape Library features a straightforward deployment process and robust customer support. Veritas Access Appliance needs a more complex setup but is supported by dedicated teams.
Pricing and ROI:StarWind Virtual Tape Library is notable for its lower upfront cost, ensuring a favorable ROI via streamlined operations. Veritas Access Appliance, albeit having a higher initial cost, provides significant ROI for organizations requiring advanced features.
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
For SMB and Enterprises, who either look to get rid of backup tapes completely, or are willing to accelerate backup process and add an extra level of protection, our solution is StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL). It is an appliance that eliminates the need in physical tape and “pretends” to be a supported tape drive or autoloader, keeping all data on inexpensive, fast and high-capacity spinning disks.
Even with explosive data growth, StarWind VTL fits the backup into backup window by accelerating it, so the process does not overlap with production time. Optionally, it creates additional copy of backup data for better safety. It is also available in a software-only form, as part of StarWind VSAN functionality.
StarWind VTL targets those, who need to replace existing tape backup infrastructure or accelerate it if regulatory requirements prohibit replacement. In case the goal is just virtualizing tape backup or creating a stretched backup infrastructure, StarWind Tape Redirector will come in handy.
The Veritas Access Appliance enables a turnkey deployment of Veritas’ software-defined Access scale-out network attached storage - a storage solution optimized for unstructured data use cases. The appliance is cost-optimized and tuned for high-capacity workloads like long-term retention (LTR), tape replacement and backup archiving.
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