HyperFactor

At the core of the Diligent’s ProtecTIER platform is our revolutionary technology, HyperFactor – which effectively changes the economics and usage profile of disk-based data protection.

Protect More while Storing Less. HyperFactor is based on a series of algorithms that identify and filter out elements of data that have been previously stored by ProtecTIER. The effect is that only new data elements are stored on disk. Over time, the impact is a 25X or more capacity increase of the physical storage capacity.

"The Impact of HyperFactor: 25X Capacity Increase"

Industry’s Fastest De-Duplication. ProtecTIER is reaching speeds of 400-450MBPS in real customer production environments, while performing de-duplication in real-time. HyperFactor performs inline data de-duplication, which means that the de-duplication process occurs in real-time as the back data stream is ingested by ProtecTIER. When the backup job completes, so too does the de-duplication process. HyperFactor’s efficiency in finding and eliminating redundant data enables the speed of the overall platform. To perform the de-dupe process, HyperFactor utilizes a very efficient RAM-based index that maps the entire contents and location of the disk target at a very granular level. The index allows HyperFactor to rapidly identify data matches, enabling a very high throughput rate. The index can map up to 1 Petabyte (PB) of physical storage utilizing just 4GB of RAM on the ProtecTIER server, a 250,000:1 ratio of disk storage to index memory. Hash based approaches are approximately 500X less efficient in their use of an index, meaning that to address 1PB of storage would require a 2TB index. This fundamentally limits hash based systems in both scalability and throughput.