For immediate release
Data Domain's DD690 fully configured gives aggregate throughput performance of up to 22 TB/hour and up to 28 petabytes of usable capacity
Brampton, ON – June 12, 2008 - Open Storage Solutions® Inc., a leader in providing data storage solutions in Canada and the US has today announced the addition of the Data Domain DD690 as their choice of in-line de-duplication storage system. Data Domain is the leading provider of in-line de-duplication storage systems, with the industry's highest performance inline de-duplication storage system for backup and other nearline applications. With aggregate throughput up to 1.4 TB/hour, and single-stream throughput up to 600 GB/hour to enable protection of large databases in short backup windows, the DD690 establishes consistently high benchmarks across the spectrum of common datacenter backup metrics. A fully configured Data Domain DDX Array with 16 DD690 controllers increases aggregate throughput performance to up to 22 TB/hour and offers up to 28 petabytes of usable capacity, delivering the capability for long-term online retention to large, consolidated datacenters.
The DD690's price/performance is enabled by the Data Domain SISL™ (Stream-Informed Segment Layout) scaling architecture to minimize the number of disk accesses required in the de-duplication process. Unlike many competing approaches, Data Domain systems ride the price/performance wave of multi-core processor architectures rather than depending on over-provisioned storage subsystems for throughput. As a result, Data Domain systems based on dual-socket controllers and minimum SATA-based storage configurations have improved in throughput by nearly a factor of ten from 2004 (150 GB/hour) to 2008 (1.4 TB/hour).
“Performance is always the key concern in any in-line appliance,” said Andrew Betterton, President and CEO of Open Storage Solutions, “so this release of the Data Domain DD690 is significant. The ever growing data environment demands continuous innovation in performance and scalability. This is something that our customers look to us for, and something we strive to deliver.”
A genomics research organization based in Maryland, running a Linux based high performance grid computing environment, has been beta testing the new Data Domain DD690 since early March. "We had a very positive experience with the DD690," said the Storage Team Lead for the company. "We've been very pleased with the performance and the strong de-duplication ratios we've achieved, and the DD690 works very well with our Symantec NetBackup software. In addition, the IP-based replication capabilities and the availability of a gateway model of the DD690 were definitely an attraction for us." They have recently moved forward with the purchase of the system.
With the Data Domain Replicator Software option, the DD690 can automate WAN vaulting for use in disaster recovery (DR), remote office backup, or multi-site tape consolidation. A single DD690 system can support a replication fan-in from up to 60 remote offices using smaller Data Domain systems such as the recently announced DD120. The DD690 can de-duplicate globally across remote sites, further minimizing required bandwidth since only the first instance of data is transferred across any of the WAN segments.
Like all Data Domain systems, the new DD690 is flexible enough to be implemented into existing user environments without disruption. Backed by Data Domain's available 24x7x365 enterprise class service, the DD690 supports leading backup and nearline software products on any standard storage fabric, including a new 10Gb Ethernet option. The DD690 is available as an easy-to-deploy appliance, or as the DD690g Gateway, which supports external SAN disk array storage.
The DD690 will be generally available in the second quarter of 2008 through Open Storage Solutions.
For more information about Data Domain's De-duplication Storage systems, please contact Open Storage Solutions at 1.800.387.3419 or at www.openstore.com. DD690 Data sheet
About Data Domain
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 1800 companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products. To find out more about Data Domain, visit www.datadomain.com. Data Domain is headquartered at 2421 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA.
About Open Storage Solutions
Open Storage Solutions, Inc has been designing and integrating advanced storage products for high performance computer applications for over 30 years. The company has a total commitment to providing the very best value solutions by utilizing leading edge technology and backing it with a high level of after sales service. Open Storage Solutions provides storage solutions from disk and tape systems, RAID systems as well as Enterprise Class servers, Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Networks and provides Professional Services. Open Storage Solutions has offices throughout Canada and the USA.