Mimosa Systems and Data Domain Announce Expansion of Alliance to Optimize Dynamic Archive Storage

Mimosa Systems (News - Alert), a provider of live content archiving solutions, together with Data Domain, recently announced the expansion of collaboration to support the latest Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage OptionTM (TSO).

 

Data Domain is a provider of deduplication storage systems. NearPoint TSO is an innovative solution which helps in optimizing the trade-off between end-user access and storage cost along with keeping pace with the growth of archived content volume. Data Domain and NearPoint TSO will allow companies to fully utilize the data deduplication efficiencies as a result of minimized storage capacity and space required to store on disk the long-term archives.

 

“The increasing volumes of data retained in today’s data archives are driving the development of sophisticated storage migration technology, such as Mimosa’s NearPoint TSO, that help minimize the costs associated with long-term information retention,” said Beth White, vice president of marketing, Data Domain. “Together with NearPoint TSO, Data Domain deduplication storage can be broadly deployed as a storage tier for nearline file storage, backup, disaster recovery and long term retention of enterprise data for reference, litigation support and regulatory compliance.”

 

The combination of this solution will help in boosting storage efficiency as a result of leveraging Data Domain as the archive tier for Mimosa NearPoint archives on a long-term basis. This will also allow customers to hold more archival data on their computer disk and help them in complying with litigation support and corporate governance requirements. Data Domain systems will also help in providing a unified and deduplicated storage tier for a very wide spectrum of nearline applications.

 

Mimosa TSO will help in providing and enabling a dedicated high-speed cache to store the contents that have been recently accessed, archived or have been marked as a business record. TSO will assemble these contents into intelligent containers that will be optimized for deduplication. Data Domain will then be presented with these containers to store and recall based on a TSO policy.

 

“Data Domain’s inline deduplication technology is the perfect complement to the new Mimosa NearPoint TSO because it brings an added level of storage optimization for exceptional performance and capacity efficiency of our combined solution,” said Scott Whitney, vice president of product management, Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa and Data Domain are closely collaborating in support of customers’ needs, today and tomorrow, for intelligent archiving that is efficient, cost effective and reliable.”