Puredisk! Remote office or Datacentre?

[Whiter30]

Can some please confirm what the main purpose of the PureDisk environment is!

Is it there to replace tape at the data centre? or is it to simplify remote office backups?

[Tom_Burrell]

How about "yes"

Puredisk in it's original form is a remote office solution (hence  the name PureDisk Remote Office Edition).

Starting in 6.5 (and NBU 6.5.2) you can also leverage Puredisk as a backup target in the datacenter for your Netbackup system with the Puredisk Deduplication Option. This is the same product, but you can now use it in a different way- it's a software alternative to products like DataDomain.

  Whether it "replaces tape" is something that I am sure many people will enjoy screaming about from one side or the other.  IMHO it really depends on what you are using tape for.

[Mayur_Dewaikar]

PureDisk can be used in three use cases: remote office backups, data center backups or virtual machine  backups. The best part is that you can write data for any of the above use cases to the same PureDisk storage pool. This basically gives you what is called as "Global Deduplication" across the Enterprise.