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posted on 20 February 2008 08:56

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Deduplication supplier Data Domain has introduced a smaller appliance for remote and branch offices. Data Domain says it is the industry’s smallest, full-function, deduplication storage system.

The DD120 offers up to 150GB/hour of inline de-duplicating throughput and an 18TB of de-duped capacity in a 1U rack shelf or chassis. It comes with Replicator software to transmit the data to a another site, a data centre hub for example, for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) reasons.

With Data Domain’s deduplicated replication technology, network bandwidth efficiency is increased by up to 99% during automated replication of backup and archive data sets, making it cost-effective to replicate the data across a WAN. The Replicator software deduplicates data across multiple sites before sending it over the network to a hub making DD120 installations more bandwidth-efficient.

The DD120 supports backup and nearline applications as a CIFS or NFS fileserver, or using the new Symantec Veritas NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) interface.

The product is aimed at large enterprises who wish to deploy automated multi-site remote disaster recovery (DR), disk-based backup/restore and global tape consolidation from core to edge.

Brian Biles, Data Domain's VP of Product Management, put this in a context: “This is a great new option for distributed enterprise sites who would normally consider a tape autoloader but hate the hassle. They no longer have to make sure they have an administrator to replace the tapes and get them on a truck on time—those days are over. With the DD120, storage and transport are automated, and management can be centralized.”

Steve Duplessie, Sr. Analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. sang off a similar hymn sheet, saying: "Data Domain is extending its reach - enabling the largest customers to now put this technology out at the remote offices, and enabling a simple, easy way to consolidate all corporate data back to a central location - without breaking the bank."

The DD120 system is generally available now. US list price is $12,500.