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Wed, March 25, 2009
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Data Domain: Data Domain Boosts Price/Performance Leadership in Midrange
SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - Data Domain, Inc. (
The new DD660 midrange system offers up to 2 TB/hour of aggregate inline deduplication throughput, and up to 700 GB/hour for a single stream. It supports up to 36 TB of raw capacity, or with 20x-50x data reduction, from 520TB to 1.3PB of logical capacity. The base model includes 12 TB of disk in a 2U rack mount chassis. Overall, the DD660 delivers major price/performance improvements to backup and recovery processes and more capacity for extended online retention.
Like all Data Domain systems, the new DD660 system is simple to install and flexible enough to implement into existing user environments without disruption. Data Domain systems offer broad application support on any storage fabric (NFS, CIFS and NetBackup OpenStorage over 1Gb or 10Gb Ethernet and/or VTL over 4Gb Fibre Channel). Users can deploy Data Domain systems for:
-- Backup and WAN-based disaster recovery (DR) -- As a secondary storage tier to offload infrequently accessed data from tier 1 storage -- For archiving applications, such as long term retention of enterprise data for reference, litigation support and regulatory compliance
Orchid Cellmark, a leading provider of DNA testing services for the human identity and agriculture markets, has been a Data Domain customer for more than two years. The IT organization tested the new DD660 system using copies of its production backup data sets and compared the results to its DD560 appliance.
"We have nine Data Domain systems in production across our data centers, and based on our extremely positive experience we jumped at the opportunity to evaluate the new DD660 system," said Carlos Ramos, executive director of IT and security for Orchid Cellmark. "Over three months, we tested backup and replication performance and functionality using production data sets with Symantec Backup Exec, VRanger and VCB backups, and the results were impressive. The DD660 doubled the performance of our backups and we saw a significant improvement in disk utilization. It's hard to make a technology that is already great even better, but Data Domain has done just that with the DD660 appliance."
"There is a clear pattern emerging here," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "After a new processor comes to market, Data Domain upgrades its product line so customers, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, can store more data in a smaller footprint, and do it faster than they could be before. The DD660 news, which comes just a few weeks after Data Domain announced a software-based performance boost, proves that Data Domain is committed to cost effectively scaling its solutions in many dimensions including more performance and more capacity. With the company's CPU centric architecture, there is no doubt that the pattern of bigger, faster, denser systems, and more importantly, satisfied customers, will continue."
"The DD660 continues to prove that the Data Domain SISL inline deduplication architecture is the most hardware-efficient approach for throughput and scale," said Brian Biles, co-founder and VP of product management at Data Domain. "With the new midrange DD660 system, customers can economically increase performance, online retention and off-site vaulting for DR while improving the operational efficiency of the environment."
The DD660 is available immediately. For more information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems, please visit [ www.datadomain.com ].
ABOUT DATA DOMAIN
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Thousands of companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products. To find out more about Data Domain, visit [ www.datadomain.com ]. Data Domain is headquartered at 2421 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054 and can be contacted by phone at 1-866-933-3873 or by e-mail at [ sales@datadomain.com ].
Data Domain Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including: "With the company's CPU centric architecture, there is no doubt that the pattern of bigger, faster, denser systems, and more importantly, satisfied customers, will continue"; and "The DD660 continues to prove that the Data Domain SISL inline deduplication architecture is the most hardware-efficient approach for throughput and scale"; and regarding our ability to reduce the amount of stored back-up data and associated storage costs and to provide faster access to data and advanced levels of data protection; and other statements identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated," "believed," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will" and "would" or similar words. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include: the impact of the global recession and continuing weakening of general economic and market conditions and customer budgets for information technology spending; our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; market acceptance of our products; our ability to scale our distribution channels; our ability to recruit and retain personnel; our ability to compete in our industry; our ability to maintain and expand relationships with technology partners; our ability to protect our intellectual property; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain and the performance of our contract manufacturer; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and our other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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