Data Domain has been pioneering data duplication since 2000 and has refined a product to address some of the most pressing challenges in the modern data centre; namely the operational difficulties of storing vast amounts of backup data on tape and also enabling timely disaster recovery through the immediate off-siting of backup data. All made possible through effective inband data deduplication. Gartner Key Finding- May 2007... De-duplication dramatically changes the economics of disk-based backup and recovery approaches by reducing data anywhere from a 20:1 to 400:1 ratio, resulting in significantly lower disk requirements.
Key Benefits...
Completely eliminate tape based restores- whilst optionally maintaining month/quarter end data on tape for long term retention.
Disaster Recovery Readiness- Using IP based replication within the appliance move backup data offsite in real time whilst only consuming 5% of the bandwidth that would be required for primary data replication- Data is available for immediate restore at DR site.
Totally non disruptive- Data Domain complements any existing backup environment and is simply presented as a disk based backup target.
Environmental Benefits- Considerably less power , cooling, space and environmental impact than equivalent non deduplicated solutions.
