Quantum announced the latest versions of its DXi8500 disk system and the Scalar i6000 tape library, as well as its Quantum Vision storage and backup analytics tool.

DXi8500 features the new DXi 2.1 software, which the company claims makes its offering the “the fastest and highest-capacity single deduplication appliance.” It can scale from 40 to 320TB, or 60 percent more than its predecessor at a dedupe rate of 8.8 terabytes per hour. Built-in DXi Accent software allows users to spread workloads across servers, and vmPRO provides a single security system on both the hardware and software layers. In addition, Quantum tried to make the price tag attractive as well.

“The newly enhanced DXi8500 offers the industry’s leading price-performance ratio, with more than twice the performance of similarly priced competitive products. It provides all licenses in the base price, including deduplication, replication, direct tape creation, OST, VTL, NAS, and DXi Accent™ for hybrid mode deduplication.”

The Scalar i6000 tap library also has some new features. It creates a pool of unassigned slots and media made available to any partition in order to increase resource utilization, leverages dual robotics and lets users store vaulted tapes inside the i6000’s chassis.

Lastly, Quantum Vision v4.1 introduces a new layer of visualization and a customizable graphic reporting tool, along with the capacity to sync reporting across a number of disk and tape deployments located either in-house or in a remote facility.

Quantum has been investing a lot in R&D lately, and released its previous offering just last month. In October 5 the company announced the DXi4601 disk backup system: a solution designed primarily small deployments, the i4601 is looking to make itself look attractive by offering a rather economic method of scaling based on license keys a customer can purchase when more capacity is needed.