Data Domain Introduces WAN Vaulting For Enterprise Backup
Data Domain, the leading provider of capacity optimized storage (COS) solutions, announced today the industry's most network-efficient WAN vaulting solution for disaster recovery (DR) and remote office data protection. This announcement spotlights the company's next major step towards an end-to-end tapeless data protection architecture. While revolutionary in scope, it is evolutionary in deployment; the solution is a simple-to-deploy software option available with all Data Domain restorer appliances, and it supports existing standard backup software deployments.
While disk solutions have been in high demand for on-site backup and retention, disaster protection has continued to rely on tape technology and physical transportation to move the tape media to a geographically remote site for vaulting purposes. Networks have historically failed to accommodate the sheer volume of backup data in a cost-efficient and automated manner. With Data Domain's market leading deduplication technology, backup data sets are effectively shrunk by 99%, to a size where WAN vaulting is now economically and operationally feasible. While the industry has seen a parade of proprietary network replication technologies attempt to tackle this problem, Data Domain offers the only solution that works with all industry-leading enterprise backup software.
"Data Domain is a pioneer in the disk-to-disk backup space," said Heidi Biggar, analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "The company uses intelligent data deduplication software to reduce the capacity needed to store backup data by about 20:1 -- a metric validated by ESG Labs. By extending the same technology to remote backups, Data Domain makes it possible for organizations to move data over the WAN efficiently and cost-effectively, effectively eliminating the need for error-prone, cumbersome, and non-secure tape vaulting processes."
"While the industry has made good progress with disk for on-site backup, moving data off-site, so far, has been the almost exclusive foray of tapes and trucks," said Frank Slootman, president and CEO of Data Domain. "With this new capability, industry standard backup data sets can be vaulted over the WAN. Data Domain enables a fully automated, lights-out IT process, no physical logistics required. Our patented deduplication technology has been instrumental in redefining storage economics and is even more critical going forward by enabling Wide Area Network vaulting. Disk backup just isn't effective if you still need to go to tape to get off-site."
Data Domain's WAN vaulting solution is an option available immediately on any DD400 series restorer.
About Data Domain
Data Domain is the leading provider of Capacity Optimized Storage (COS) solutions, enabling reliable, cost-effective data protection for the enterprise. More than 300 companies worldwide use Data Domain's award-winning disk-based backup and recovery storage systems. Data Domain's Global Compression, data invulnerability and replication technologies offer breakthrough compression rates reducing the cost of disk-based backup and simplifying data recovery. Founded in 2001, Data Domain is a privately held company. For more information, visit Data Domain's Web site at www.datadomain.com. Data Domain is headquartered at 3400 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304 and can be contacted by phone at 1-877-622-2587 or e-mail at sales@datadomain.com.