Tag Archives: Data Domain

EMC Data Domain products enter the archive market

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Ray

In another assault on the tape market, EMC announced today a new Data Domain 860 Archiver appliance. This new system supports both short-term and long-term retention of backup data. This attacks one of the last bastions of significant tape use … Continue reading →

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EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP1 surfaces

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ray

This week EMC releases NetWorker 7.6 SP1 with new Boost support for Data Domain (DD) appliances which allows NetWorker’s storage node (media server) and the DD appliance to jointly work on providing deduplication services.  Earlier this year EMC DD announced the … Continue reading →

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EMC's Data Domain ROI

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Ray

I am trying to put EMC’s price for Data Domain (DDup) into perspective but am having difficulty. According to InfoWorld article on EMC acquisitions ’03-’06 and some other research this $2.2B$2.4B is more money (not inflation adjusted) than anything in … Continue reading →

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EMC Better At Acquisitions?

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Ray

I was talking with an EMCer the other day about the Data Domain deal and he said that EMC does very well with acquisitions. Just about every EMC product line other than Symmetrix (and possibly Celerra, Invista, PowerPath and maybe … Continue reading →

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Data Domain bidding war

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ray

It’s unclear to me what EMC would want with Data Domain (DD) other than to lockup deduplication technology across the enterprise. EMC has Avamar for Source dedupe, has DL for target dedupe, has Celerra Dedupe and the only one’s missing … Continue reading →

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Data Domain and NetApp

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Ray

Data Domain has been a longtime partner of NetApp’s, which is probably one reason that NetApp finally decided to make them an offer. Another reason why it’s right to do this now is that in today’s economy, NetApp could get … Continue reading →

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