Note that the Brocade VTL Solution is available only in North America.

The Brocade Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution increases data backup flexibility by providing efficient disk-to-disk-to-tape backup to affordable tape media over distance.

The Brocade VTL solution features a complete offering of Brocade products, services, and support along with VTL technology from FalconStor. It is designed for organizations that need a cost-effective way to reduce their backup windows, improve backup over the WAN, and enhance their disaster recovery capabilities.

By supplementing existing backup operations with disk-to-disk-to-tape backup through emulated virtual tape libraries, the Brocade VTL solution improves data backup, recovery, and availability. Moreover, it integrates easily into existing environments-delivering superior I/O performance, high reliability, and fast ROI.

Based on industry-leading FalconStor VTL technology, the Brocade VTL solution enables organizations to securely replicate virtual tape cartridges to remote appliances and export them to physical tape for long-term vaulting. As a result, these organizations can improve their business continuity options without jeopardizing their backup windows.

The Brocade VTL solution supports:

• Integration with backup tape copy: It integrates with existing enterprise backup environments, enabling backup applications to control and monitor all copies of the backup volumes for simplified management.
• Remote replication and archiving: It enables organizations to remotely copy/archive data through FCIP by utilizing the Brocade 7500 and Brocade Edge M3000 extension products. Tape Pipelining increases throughput and performance over standard replication methods-enabling organizations to redeploy existing tape resources to remote sites for archiving purposes.

Other advanced features include:

• ACSLS shared libraries for easier import/export of virtual tapes
• Automated tape caching based on defined policies
• Hardware compression for improved resource utilization
• High availability through active-active failover
• Hosted backup support for leading third-party applications
• Replication between sites for business continuity

• Provides an efficient, cost-effective solution for remote backup to tape
• Improves reliability by reducing or eliminating media and tape transport errors
• Reduces backup times by providing disk-based virtual tape drives
• Utilizes automated policies to migrate data from virtual (disk-based) tape to physical tape
• Helps protect data with robust remote copy, archiving, and security features
• Integrates seamlessly into existing enterprise backup environments, eliminating the need for additional media servers
• Supports a wide range of physical tape libraries, backup applications, and disk storage platforms