WD Arkeia

Line of the devices of Western Digital company intended for the complete solution of the questions connected with network backup and recovery after failures at the enterprises of medium and small business.

2013: Fourth generation of WD Arkeia

In June, 2013 WD, division of Western Digital company, being the leading decision maker for digital data storage, provided fourth generation of WD Arkeia.

The new line includes four models equipped with capacious hard drives, fast processors, expanded amount of RAM and the built-in solid state drives which allow to reduce significantly time required for execution of operations of backup or recovery after failure. With devices of a series the software package of WD Arkeia v10.1 supporting technology of hybrid copying of "seed and feed" given using cloud storages according to a paradigm is delivered. It allows to deliver data to the remote platform not only on physical media, but also using mechanisms of network replication.

"Releasing the fourth generation of specialized solutions for network backup, WD Arkeia represents a full range of solutions for medium and small business, Liz Conner, the senior analyst of IDC company noted. - These products help to avoid all difficulties connected with acquisition, setup and day-to-day running of a complex of servers, film drives and the corresponding software. Thanks to the built-in functions of deduplication and support of the hybrid cloud systems, WD Arkeia devices are the solution for data protection, attractive to the small and medium enterprises".

"WD would like to offer a full range of solutions for data storage for the growing segment of the companies of small and medium business" — Jim Welsh, the executive vice president of WD corporation and the CEO of groups of branded products and drives for consumer electronics said.

Unique on the functionality, devices for network backup of WD Arkeia provide simplicity and convenience of data protection both to IT integrators, and to their customers.

Processors and drives

Fourth generation of WD Arkeia devices differs in the high performance, ease of setup, ease of use and the affordable price. New models expand the potential of this line, supplementing possibilities of the products which are released earlier.

WD Arkeia R120 and R220 are constructed based on Atom dual-core processors and quad-core processors of Xeon, respectively, and also can be equipped with the tape drives LTO4. For June, 2013 devices with disk memory from 2 to 12 TB are available. All models are delivered with the WD Arkeia v10.1 software package.

Features of products

Among the main features of fourth generation of WD Arkeia it should be noted:

1. Higher speed of backup and recovery: devices can be equipped with the built-in tape drives LTO5, and some models allow to accelerate considerably backup and recovery of files and disk images, by installation to two six-nuclear Intel Xeon processors and solid state drives and also expansion of RAM to 96 GB. The patent technology of deduplication Progressive Deduplication helps to increase in addition work speed by data compression directly on the computer source, before transfer through a local or global network.

2. High capacity: in comparison with third generation of devices the capacity of disk memory was increased up to 48 TB, RAID-6 configurations are also supported.

3. Is even more easy-to-work: with new generation of devices the software of WD Arkeia of version 10.1 which is included by the master simplifying process of initial setup of a system is delivered.

4. Reliability of storage: all new WD Arkeia devices are completed with hard drives of the industrial WD RE level.

5. The simplified procedure of the organization of data storage on the remote platform without use of tape drives: version 10.1 of the WD Arkeia software package expands support of hybrid cloud backup on all devices of the WD Arkeia series. Support of a paradigm of "seed and feed" allows administrators in addition to a traditional replitsirovaniye of data on network to use for transfer of large volumes of information on remote platforms (for example, when forming the first backup copy) hard drives with the USB interface and also to estimate the network transmission capacity necessary for accomplishment of night additional backup.

Terms of the beginning of sales and recommended prices for territories of Russia it will be announced in addition.