Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Data Domain Releases Inline Deduplication System

Data Domain, a provider of enterprise protection storage systems for disk backup and network-based disaster recovery, has announced the release of its DD580, a scalable inline deduplication system for enterprise data protection. The DD580 is enabled with Data Domain’s Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISL) scaling architecture; the company is quoted to have said.

A single DD580 system delivers up to 800 GB (gigabytes) per hour of aggregate deduplication throughput with less than 15 SATA (Serial-ATA) Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)-6 protected disks, Data Domain of Santa Clara, California said. The company’s inline deduplication performance is based on the price performance wave of multi-core processor architectures, instead of depending on oversized storage subsystems for system throughput, Data Domain added.

A fully configured Data Domain DDX Array with 16 DD580 controllers increases throughput performance to over 12 TB (terabytes) per hour, and offers up to 20 PB (petabytes) of capacity for long-term online retention, Data Domain said. The new DD580 is simple to install and flexible enough to be implemented into existing user environments without disruption, like the other Data Domain systems, the company said. The DD580 supports leading backup software products on any storage fabric, it said. The DD580 is available as an easy-to-deploy appliance, or as the DD580g Gateway, which supports external Fibre Channel or SATA disk arrays, Data Domain added.