SEPATON's DeltaView Manager and ContentAware Analytics provide powerful management and detailed reporting to enable a single administrator to quickly and easily manage multiple storage pools in a single SEPATON system. SEPATON's Analytics provide the information administrators and managers need to optimize performance, maximize system utilization and accurately project cost and resource requirements for the future.

"Enterprises are looking for ways to drive cost out of data protection through automation and economies of scale," said Jay Kramer, vice president of worldwide marketing, SEPATON. "SEPATON changes the way we think about the cloud by providing the industry's only highly efficient way to manage petabytes of data from multiple entities on a single system while optimizing CAPEX and OPEX."

"Private and public clouds are emerging because they offer a compelling value proposition that helps firms cost-effectively store, manage and protect the exponential growth of information assets," said Laura DuBois, program vice president, IDC. "SEPATON is well positioned to protect data in a cloud with the new capabilities of Storage Pools and data analytics based on its ContentAware" architecture."

"SEPATON's multi-tenancy and ContentAware Analytics capability is an important milestone in our progress towards complete Data Protection Lifecycle Management (DPLM) for the cloud," said Fidelma Russo, chief operating officer, SEPATON, Inc. "By allowing for dynamic performance optimization and data segmentation via storage pools, SEPATON's multi-tenancy technology provides the basis for future innovation. Over time, we anticipate implementing additional functionality such as WORM or encryption which will be applied on a pool basis. Our integrated multi-tenancy model is highly differentiated compared to the small single system design of our competitors and we are the only vendor who provides this functionality today."

SEPATON's unique DeltaScale" architecture enables each pool to take advantage of its thin provisioning technology and provides dynamic performance. All nodes in the system will work together to deduplicate incoming data regardless of the pool. Thus, if only one pool is being accessed, all system nodes will deduplicate the incoming data. If data is then ingested for a different pool, the nodes will automatically load-balance to deliver optimal deduplication performance for both pools. Storage Pooling meets the immediate need for virtual storage that allows flexible allocation of resources to meet changing business needs and improve infrastructure efficiency.

SEPATON's multi-tenancy design enables customers to implement different storage technologies to meet differing requirements. Additionally, as new technologies emerge like denser disk packaging or increased drive sizes, customers could use the pool technology to implement these solutions transparently without impacting ongoing operations and retire older technology over different timeframes.

S2100-ES2 Series 1900/2900 with multi-tenancy is shipping now. Version 5.4 software is available as a no charge software upgrade for SEPATON customers. The ContentAware Analytics service offering is currently available.