IBM reveals a mid-range reduplication appliance that range at half the price of the present low-end data reduction gateway. In addition, the IBM also reveals improvement, including a new policy engine, to its enterprise-class SONAS network-attached storage (NAS) array. Companies new mid-range 2U high 3.5-in ProtecTIER TS7610 appliance assemble between an application server and its primary storage array, such as the IBM XIV storage system.

The reduplications technology arrives from IBM's acquisition of Diligent Technologies Corp., IBM released the first ProtecTIER product based on Diligent technology. And earlier this year, IBM released the ProtecTIER TS7680 gateway device for mainframes.

The ProtecTIER TS7680 has a price range of extra than $100,000, and contain two-node cluster for up to a terabyte of storage room space per system under single friendship interface. By similarity, the ProtecTIER TS7610 has a price range of about $50,000, and it come in 4TB and 5.4TB configurations.