Diligent Technologies

Diligent, acquired by IBM in April 2008, is a world-class innovator in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions. Focused on meeting the challenges of storing, protecting and managing the ever-explosive growth of backup data and the continued inefficiencies inherent in traditional methods, Diligent has pioneered and delivered a solution that will forever change the economics of implementing disk based backup and restore in data centers.

Diligent’s ProtecTIER platform is the industry’s most cost-effective and robust disk-based data protection solution on the market. Powered by HyperFactor, a revolutionary “game-changing” inline data de-duplication technology, ProtecTIER eliminates redundant data and radically reduces the amount and cost of physical storage required. A first-of-its-kind technology, the platform provides a single instance store for backup and recovery, archive, and compliance applications.

Diligent has a recognized global customer base, a solid base of channel partners and a history of innovation and execution. Diligent solutions have been successfully deployed in organizations around the globe across all industries.

Diligent Products Overview

Industry leaders around the globe count on Diligent’s scalable, reliable and proven disk-based data protection solutions to meet today’s increasing demands for availability and recovery of their data. Proven to improve backup and recovery operations in Open Systems and Mainframe environments, Diligent’s data protection solutions seamlessly integrate with any data center environment without disruption.

ProtecTIER™ Data Protection Platform

Diligent’s ProtecTIER platform is the first proven enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that enables customers to reduce their required backup disk storage capacity by 25X or more. It does so while ingesting backup data in-line at rates of up to 450MB/s making it the only de-duplication platform that is viable in enterprise environments. ProtecTIER can scale up to 1PB of physical disk storage and because of data de-duplication, it enables effiicient electronic replication for geographic protection. Powered by HyperFactor™, the industry leading data de-duplication technology, ProtecTIER enables enterprises to eliminate redundant data resulting in a large-scale reduction in the amount and cost of physical storage required, thus rendering disk-storage economically viable for backup restore and archive.

ProtecTIER Offerings

There are two categories of ProtecTIER offerings. The ProtecTIER Enterprise offerings address the needs of the enterprise data center in both scalability and throughput performance. ProtecTIER Mid-Range offerings are tuned for mid-sized environments and are priced to fit within the budget of the mid-sized customer. ProtecTIER Mid-Range solutions are available in pre-defined configurations through Diligent's channel partners.
 

VTF™ Open

The VTF Open platform emulates existing tape backup applications to give companies the speed, performance, reliability and availability of disk-based backup and recovery.
 

VTF Mainframe
VTF Mainframe automatically redirects tape data to disk in z/OS environments, helping organizations to enhance their tape-based application performance, manage tape data as disk data, and enable unparalleled disaster recovery.