HP turns StoreOnce into virtual storage appliance

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today added to its disk and tape backup portfolios with a virtual appliance version of its StoreOnce deduplication technology and a midrange tape library.

The StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) is a software appliance system that runs as a virtual machine (VM) on industry standard hardware. The StoreOnce VSA runs the same software as HP's StoreOnce disk-based dedicated backup hardware appliances, so it includes federated deduplication and cross-family replication.

HP slapped the software-defined storage tag on the VSA.

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