Lifting the hood on the Whitewater 3010 cloud storage gateway (photos)

We recently popped open the new Riverbed Whitewater 3010 cloud storage gateway to see just how powerful it is. The appliance arrives just in time considering the fresh urgency for disaster recovery (DR) planning following Hurricane Sandy.

Protect up to 4.8PB of backup data in a 3U chassis with the new Whitewater 3010 cloud storage gateway. This enterprise-ready gem stores 4x more and is 2x faster than any previous model.

Whitewater cloud storage gateways eliminate tape, improve DR readiness and substantially reduce costs. A local intelligent cache stores the most recent and frequently accessed data — speeding the recovery of important data. They also encrypt the data in the local cache, as well as in transit and at the cloud service provider.

 

Big brains: two high-speed, six-core processors and support for 64GB of memory translates into an ingest rate of 1.5TB per hour to easily meet your enterprise backup windows.

The appliance is stuffed with high-powered hardware. The most powerful model we have ever produced gives large enterprises a fast, cost-efficient, and encrypted method to back up very large data sets to offsite cloud-based backup providers.

Six high-speed NICS ingest up to 24 streams of backup data and replicate to your favorite public cloud provider.

The new Whitewater 3010 features include:

• Four times the on-premise capacity at 32TB to target larger source data sets
• Four times the cloud storage capacity at 64–160TB to store more data, longer
• Faster 1.5TB/hour ingest performance to reduce the backup window
• Double the internal memory to 64GB
• RAID-6 protection
• Up to 60TB of weekly data protected at typical de-dup rates

Blazing performance comes from sixteen 3TB near-line SAS drives.

Organizations of all sizes will also enjoy the easier-to-use dashboards and more powerful features in the new Whitewater Operating System 2.0.

• New Linux kernel for faster speed, stronger security, and more stability
• New Windows Active Directory support lets Whitewater easily integrate into enterprise organizations
• An all-new management dashboard provides at-a-glance status of the appliance, storage, replication status, and performance metrics
• Central management and monitoring of Whitewater appliances in remote locations, including rebooting, shutdown, and hardware sensor monitoring

Hot-replaceable components ensure maximum uptime. And award-winning Riverbed Gold Plus support delivers new parts at your site in four hours or less.

Mitchel Weinberger, information technology manager at GeoEngineers, says that the new Whitewater 3010 is about 25 percent faster than his company's previous Whitewater appliances. "And with the Whitewater 3010, the larger the backup, the larger the improvement we see."

Every Riverbed hardware appliance comes with a nifty screwdriver — a coveted tool in the IT toolbox!

Read what others had to say about this extraordindary backup appliance and see how easy it is to get started:

Jk-47: Real dedupe/cost savings results from a Riverbed Whitewater

Talkin' Cloud: Riverbed Whitewater 2.0 Cloud Storage Handles Larger Loads

Riverbed Splash: 3 simple steps to get started with Whitewater

This post is based on an article that originally appeared in the Riverbed Connections Newsletter.

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