DataDomain Storage Solutions

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About DataDomain
Data Domain makes data storage more efficient and affordable.
From its inception, Data Domain has helped customers reduce or eliminate the use of tape infrastructures with a very efficient disk- and network-based data protection alternative. Today, Data Domain customers are expanding the use of their systems to include a broad range of nearline workloads and use cases beyond data protection. In essence, Data Domain’s file system technology represents a new generation of data versioning and replication efficiency. Data Domain’s strategy is to continue bringing new storage and network efficiencies to the enterprise data storage arena on a single, integrated product platform to improve storage economics and simplify data management for its customers.

How? Data deduplication.
Using the company’s high-speed inline deduplication technology, Data Domain systems identify redundant files and data as they are being stored, creating a storage footprint that is up to 20x smaller than the original dataset. Originally an ideal solution for backup and disaster recovery applications, customers are now deploying Data Domain deduplication storage more broadly as a storage tier including nearline file storage, backup, disaster recovery (DR) and long term retention of enterprise data for reference, litigation support and regulatory compliance. .

As enterprise data continues to expand exponentially, customers face the costly challenge of storing and managing all that information. As the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, Data Domain helps enterprises continue to realize dramatic cost and efficiency improvements, minimize reliance upon tape technology and meet stringent DR guidelines.

Retain. Replicate. Recover.
Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the nearline storage needs of enterprises across the globe. Its products include the award-winning DDX Array Series, Appliance Series and Gateway Series—each of which massively reduce data volume, reducing capacity requirements for online data retention. All Data Domain systems are simple to deploy and offer customers the flexibility of NAS or VTL (virtual tape library) interfaces.

As data is deduplicated, Data Domain Replicator software moves only the unique new data segments across the Wide Area Network (WAN), for DR, remote office data protection and multi-site tape consolidation. Replicated files are safely off-site and can now be recovered in seconds or minutes, without needing to locate, transport or mount a tape.

In addition, these systems offer advanced levels of continuous data verification and integrity through Data Domain’s proprietary Data Invulnerability Architecture, which includes RAID-6 protection. These extra measures of protection are designed to ensure that stored data is accurate and recoverable.

Data Domain systems are compatible with the leading backup, archive and enterprise applications, so integration into existing infrastructures is fast and seamless.

Over 1,800 enterprise customers around the world have purchased Data Domain systems. Data Domain is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “DDUP” and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Products
>>>Data Domain Appliance Series
>>>Data Domain DDX Array
>>>Data Domain Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software
>>>Data Domain Gateway Series
>>>OpenStorage Software
>>>Replicator Software

>>>DXi7500 Enterprise

>>>Virtual SAN Appliance

Data Domain Appliance Series

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The Data Domain Appliance Series delivers the highest throughput and scalability of any deduplication storage system in the industry and was designed to be seamlessly and cost-effectively integrated into existing infrastructures.

Key features include:
Massive Data Reduction: Driven by Data Domain’s fast, inline deduplication and compression technology, Global Compression, the Appliance Series offers an average 20x data reduction for backup images, enabling cost-efficient, long-term retention.
Fully Compatible with All Leading Enterprise Backup and Archiving Software: The Appliance Series is designed to easily integrate into the existing backup infrastructure — either as a file server or virtual tape library (VTL) — supporting all leading enterprise backup and archiving software.
High Throughput and Extended Retention: The Appliance Series delivers up to 800 GB/hr of throughput (exceeding LTO-4 performance) and offers up to 1.25 PB of logical capacity, allowing months of online backup image retention and ensuring fast, reliable data restores from disk.
Local and Remote Site Data Protection: Data Domain Replicator software enables Data Domain deduplication storage systems to function as a highly efficient WAN vaulting solution for DR, remote office data protection and multi-site tape consolidation.
Advanced Data Integrity: Data Domain’s Data Invulnerability Architecture provides the best defense against data integrity issues with continuous fault detection and healing, and end-to-end verification of data recoverability at time of backup.

Data Domain DDX Array

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The Data Domain DDX Array is the industry’s first data center scale deduplication storage array with high throughput, capacity and scalability to meet the growing demands of data centers with large nearline storage requirements and/or multiple remote site protection requirements.

Key features include:
Modular Scalability: The DDX Array Series is available in 4, 8 and 16 controller configurations, uses integrated or third party external storage, and is designed to provide nearline storage for data centers with at least 20 TB of application data.
Massive Data Reduction: Driven by Data Domain’s fast, inline deduplication technology, Global Compression™, DDX array configurations significantly reduce physical storage required for long-term retention and are available for less than $0.35 per GB.
High Throughput and Extended Retention: A 16-controller DDX array provides up to 12.8 TB per hour throughput and delivers over 20 petabytes of capacity depending on backup policy and data change rate. This provides up to 18 months of online retention, ensuring fast and reliable data recoveries from disk.
Green: The DDX Array Series with integrated internal storage uses as little as 1.1 watts per TB of power and as little as 9U of 19" rack space per petabyte, significantly lowering power, cooling and floor tile requirements in the data center.
Simplified Data Center Management: The Data Domain Enterprise Manager provides monitoring of the controllers in a DDX array with a simple, browser-based graphical user interface (GUI).
Flexible DR Configuration: The DDX Series complements all Data Domain appliances as a hub for efficiently vaulting data from up to 320 remote sites for DR, tape consolidation and longer term retention.
Ultimate Data Integrity: Data Domain’s Data Invulnerability Architecture provides the best defense against data integrity issues to continuously verify, detect and protect against data recoverability issues throughout the life cycle of the data.
Fully Compatible with All Leading Enterprise Backup and Archiving Software: Like all Data Domain deduplication storage systems, the DDX Series is qualified with all leading backup and archiving software and easily integrates into the existing environment using NAS and/or Virtual Tape interfaces without any infrastructure changes.

Data Domain Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software

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High-Speed Inline Deduplication for SAN Environments

Data Domain Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software emulates multiple tape libraries over a Fibre Channel interface and seamlessly integrates with the existing backup infrastructure to enable cost-efficient long term retention on disk and more reliable, high-speed recoveries of backup data.

Key features include:
Scalability: The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software eliminates tape-related failures by enabling all Data Domain systems to emulate multiple tape libraries and tape drives with up to 10,000 virtual slots across up to 100,000 virtual cartridges.
Cost-Efficient Long Term Retention and Recoverability: The VTL software benefits from Data Domain’s core technologies such as Global Compression™ and Data Invulnerability Architecture. These deliver high capacity and highly reliable data recovery at lower costs than other leading VTL systems.
Network-Efficient Disaster Recovery: Using Data Domain Replicator software, virtual cartridges can be vaulted over the wide area network (WAN) to another site for disaster recovery, remote office data protection and multi-site tape consolidation.
Easy Integration with Existing Infrastructure: The Data Domain VTL is qualified with the leading enterprise backup and archiving software appliations for seamless integration. Data Domain also provides the additional flexibility of being able to use VTL and NAS interfaces simultaneously.

OpenStorage Software

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Optimized Integration with Symantec Veritas NetBackup

Symantec Veritas NetBackup (NBU) is one of the most pervasive data management tools used in medium to large size data centers. It is a critical component of users' backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness strategies. NBU directs the operation of disk and tape media that stores typically five times more data than what can be found on the primary storage in the same data center. As data continues to grow unabated and as more attention is focused on a company's ability to recover from a disaster, new replication and disaster recovery (DR) solutions enabled by deduplication are becoming mandatory in many data management approaches.

Data Domain deduplication storage together with the Data Domain OpenStorage (OST) option provides these disaster recovery solutions with a foundation of simplicity and flexibility and allow NetBackup administrators to easily manage and take full advantage of these new and intelligent disk-based storage systems.

Seamless Integration with Symantec NetBackup 6.5
Operational simplicity
Media server load balancing
Intelligent disk capacity management
Storage lifecycle policies
NetBackup-Managed Replication
99% bandwidth reduction
NetBackup-managed data replication/vaulting
Cost-efficient disaster recovery
Multi-site tape consolidation
Ultra-Safe Storage for Reliable Recovery
Continuous recovery verification
Continuous fault detection and healing

Replicator Software

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Network-Efficient Replication of Nearline Data

Data Domain Replicator software provides network-efficient, automated, ultra-safe replication for disaster recovery (DR), remote office data protection and multi-site tape consolidation. Data Domain Replicator software vaults or asynchronously replicates only the compressed, deduplicated data over the wide area network (WAN), making WAN vaulting economically and operationally feasible.

Key features include:
Up to 99% Network Bandwidth Reduction: For replication, Data Domain’s Global Compression™ becomes more effective by first deduplicating and compressing data at the originating Data Domain system and then employing the techniques again on the destination system.
Secure, Simple and Integrated: Replicator software enables automated offsite replication by easily integrating with the existing network and backup infrastructure. WAN vaulting eliminates the security risks associated with human intervention and physical tape transportation.
Fast Online Data Recovery: Data Domain systems provide high capacity and network-based DR, making it possible to recover online data from either location.
Remote Office Data Protection: Replicator software enables geographically distributed branch offices to vault selected data to a central hub or data center for enterprise-wide site recovery.
Tape Consolidation: Replicator software eliminates the need for tape backup at each remote office and enables organizations to consolidate tape infrastructure at a central hub with experienced IT staff.
Flexible Deployment Options: To meet a broad scope of data protection needs, Replicator software allows enterprises to deploy different topologies, such as one-to-one mirroring, bi-directional vaulting and many-to-one remote site vaulting.