Drobo Storage Solutions
The Ultimate Storage Solution for Your Digital Assets

Drobo is committed to making sure that our customers spend less time thinking about storage and more time using it in their businesses. To that end, whether you're a small or medium business, a department in a larger enterprise, or an individual professional, we'd like to help you envision how Drobo could improve your life. Because we're not just storage: Drobo's different.

Industries:

Application or Environment:

Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is becoming an integral component in the design of IT solutions. This should come as no surprise considering the benefits: reduced hardware costs, simplified management, and improved business continuity.
Multi-Server Environment
As a business grows, so does the underlying IT infrastructure to support it. As time goes by, servers are added for each application, and the storage for these servers can quickly get out of hand. One key solution for simplifying environments, gaining better control and making the best usage of storage resources is storage consolidation.
Single-Server Environment
Small businesses and creative professionals generate a large amount of data that is the life-blood of their business. From accounts receivable to engineering designs to photographs or video, ensuring the safety and availability of that information is critical.

Technology Innovation:

BeyondRAID Technology
BeyondRAID technology, built into every Drobo, delivers all of the benefits of traditional RAID, while providing much more and leaving many of the limitations behind. This next-generation of redundant storage technology brings together enhanced protection, reliability, expandability, and ease-of-use.
User-Driven Design
While Drobo's internal firmware capabilities revolutionize the way we use and manage storage, that isn't the only remarkable thing about Drobo. It's unique industrial design and user interface take storage ease-of-use to another level.
Thin Provisioning and Reclamation
Thin Provisioning is a fundamental capability of BeyondRAID, allowing you to allocate the right amount of storage for today, while allowing you to expand capacity by just adding a drive to the Drobo or replacing an existing drive with a larger one.
Data-Aware Tiering
These advanced technologies make Drobos ideal for allowing SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs) to work together optimally in the same chassis – automatically!
Hybrid Storage Solutions
Hybrid storage solutions are designed to provide the speed of solid state drives (SSD's) with the efficiency and cost advantage of high capacity hard disks.

Solutions for Business:

If you're a small or medium business or a department in a larger company, Drobo can substantially improve your disk-based backup, file sharing, virtualization, and application strategies.

	Virtualization Virtualization has become a critical part of IT infrastructure. With the complexities that can be introduced when deploying a virtual environment, it’s important that all components work together flawlessly. Drobo products seamlessly integrate with your virtualization architectures to provide storage for your business critical applications and your development/test environments. VMware vSphere for HA and fault tolerance Using affordable yet sophisticated shared storage to maximize high availability and fault tolerance in VMware environments. Citrix XenServer enables HA for SMBs Affordable Drobo shared storage enables SMBs to reach a Zen state for application HA with Citrix XenServer Advanced Edition. Microsoft Hyper-V provides VM HA for SMBs Using affordable yet sophisticated Drobo shared storage to maximize high availability for Microsoft Hyper-V™
	Replication The costs of a disaster, even a minor one, are real. Protecting your valuable data can be the difference between keeping your business operating smoothly and loosing hours, days, or even weeks of productivity. Deploying a replication strategy with Drobo to securely copy your data offsite is one way to ensure that, in the event of a disaster, you’ll always have access to your data ensuring business continuity. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Replication in smaller IT environments using Drobo iSCSI SAN and VMware vCenter SRM with vSphere Replication. DR with Host-Based Replication with Double-Take Disaster Recovery (DR) solution with replication using Drobo and Double-Take Availability from Vision Solutions. Drobo Sync for Offsite Protection Affordable offsite protection for unstructured data with rapid recovery could not be easier when using Drobo 8-bay File Sharing Storage for Business and Drobo Sync.
	Backup Backing up data is challenging especially for an SMB that needs faster backups, faster recoveries facing shrinking backup windows. Leverage the simplicity and power of a Drobo to meet and exceed your data protection requirements. With Drobo you have the ability to easily protect all of your local data using the backup software you’re already using today. VM Backup with Veeam The #1 rated solution for virtual machine backup using Drobo for disk-based backup storage and Veeam Backup & Replication. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for B800fs Heterogeneous data protection for physical & virtual machines in smaller IT environments using Drobo B800fs and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition Acronis vmProtect 7 for B800i VMware data protection in smaller IT environments using Drobo B800i and Acronis vmProtect™ 7 Disk-based Backup with Deduplication with Symantec Optimizing your SMB backup & DR strategy using Drobo for Business storage with Symantec Backup Exec 2012 and V-Ray technology Backup with Drobo and Archiware PresSTORE P4 Drobo storage and P4 software work hand-in-hand to make backup super easy
	Cloud Cloud technology has become a key architectural cornerstone for many organizations. As more and more data moves to the cloud, it’s important to have the flexibility to integrate the storage you own with your virtual infrastructure in the cloud. Drobo’s iSCSI devices allow for simple integration to both Amazon AWS and VMware vCloud infrastructures, providing the ultimate protection for your hybrid cloud environment. Amazon AWS Storage Gateway Offsite backup for on-premises storage for smaller IT environments using a virtual appliance with Drobo and AWS Storage Gateway. Carbonite for Comprehensive Cloud Backup Making cloud backup simple, accessible, and affordable for small businesses. VMware vCloud for Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure The latest architecture for building a cloud computing infrastructure in smaller IT environments Offsite Cloud Backup with ElephantDrive ElephantDrive running natively on the 5N via a DroboApp provides continuous cloud backups of critical data without the requirement of a host computer or server.
	Applications Storage for Small Business Server (SBS) Using Drobo storage and the power of BeyondRAID™ for easier growth and evolution for Small Business Server (SBS) solutions.

Solutions for Professionals:

Drobo was designed from the group up to be simple enough for anyone to use, but sophisticated enough to provide reliable tuned storage for your most important digital assets.

	Plex Access your media from anywhere.
	Drobo and Copy Store, protect and share critical information.
	Storage and Backup Protect all your digital assets in easy-to-use storage that provides speedy access to your files.
	Photo or Video Workflow Drobo packs enough performance for editing media—even with multiple editors working at the same time.
	Personal Cloud Using Drobo with Pogoplug for remote file access and media streaming.
	Home Media Simple, safe way to store media and then share them over the network.
	CrashPlan Backup Offsite backup of Drobo direct-attached storage.

Drobo Storage Solutions The Ultimate Storage Solution for Your Digital Assets

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Drobo Storage Solutions
The Ultimate Storage Solution for Your Digital Assets