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Data Center Proven Deduplication Storage
Challenges
- Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs): In today's information-intensive environment, rapid data growth poses a serious challenge in meeting SLAs for backup and recovery - with shrinking backup windows, reduced recovery time objectives (RTOs) and decreasing tolerance for data loss. You require nearline storage solutions that deliver automatic, fast, efficient, streamlined, and reliable data protection and disaster recovery.
- High Costs to Go "Tapeless": Despite advantages of disk and shortcomings of tape, conventional disk-based backup systems are still too expensive to use to go "tapeless." Backup storage requires 5 to 10 times the primary storage that you are protecting and therefore months of backup data retention are not affordable.
- Power, Cooling, and Floor Space Considerations: With green data center initiatives, IT organizations are looking to reduce energy consumption and save floor space - not to expand it by 5 to 10 times for backup storage.
- Disaster Recovery (DR): Today, disaster recovery still remains tape-based, shipping and vaulting tapes offsite. According to Gartner, one in ten recoveries from tape fails. This means you will likely fail 10% of DR audits.
But more importantly, in DR situations, you require additional time to respond. After all, you cannot choose which 10% of disasters from which you don't recover. Distributed enterprises, where corporate information is spread across data centers and remote offices, present additional challenges for DR.
- Complex Integration with Existing Infrastructure: You require a revolutionary nearline storage solution that simplifies and address these issues. At the same time, you require an evolutionary solution that is easy to integrate and requires little or no changes to the tested and stable infrastructure you have built.
Solution
Data Domain has revolutionized disk backup and network-based disaster recovery with its foundation technologies, such as its Global Compression™, which reduces backup data by 20x over time, and Data Invulnerability Architecture, providing the ultimate in defense against data integrity issues to ensure successful, reliable recoveries.
Built on these foundation technologies, Data Domain offers data center scale solutions with:
- High Capacity and High Throughput: Data Domain's data center solutions offer up to 6.4 TB/hour throughput and provide up to 15 petabytes of storage capacity. This capacity ensures extended retention for nearline data and Data Domain's high performance allows you to meet your SLAs for backup and recovery operations.
- Nearline Storage at the Cost of Tape: Driven by Data Domain's fast, in-line deduplication technology, Data Domain's DDX array configurations significantly reduce physical storage required for long-term retention and are available for less than $0.35 per GB, essential to a “tapeless” architecture.
- Green Data Center: By massively reducing physical storage required, Data Domain also reduces power, energy, and floor space requirements in the data center. For example, a Data Domain DDX array configuration with internal storage uses as little as 1.1 watts / TB of power and as little as 9U rack space per petabyte.
- Flexible DR Configuration: Data Domain DDX Array Series enables automatic WAN vaulting for DR, acting as a deduplication hub for hundreds of remote offices as well as being capable of bi-directional replication for cross-site disaster protection.
- Fully Compatible with All Leading Enterprise Backup and Archiving Software: All of Data Domain nearline storage systems are qualified with all leading backup and archiving software and easily integrate into the existing environment using NAS and/or Virtual Tape interfaces without any infrastructure changes.
- Modular Scalability: Data Domain offers various configurations to expand storage capacity from 25 TB 20 PB for you to respond to your changing business requirements.
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