EMC Debuts a New Midrange Deduplication Storage System

EMC, a developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, has stated that they have a new midrange deduplication storage system – the new EMC Data Domain (News - Alert) DD670.

The solution makes use of the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon processor 5500 series and when used with the EMC Data Domain Boost software it is over two times faster than the midrange products available from other providers and it is up to 1.5 times faster when used as a virtual tape library.

The company has claimed that the DD670 midrange deduplication storage system offers up to 5.4 TB per hour of aggregate inline deduplication throughput and supports up to 76 TB of raw capacity or up to 2.7 petabytes of logical capacity with 50 times data reduction. It offers advanced price and performance enhancements to backup and recovery processes and more capacity for extended online retention. Like any other solution in EMC’s (News - Alert) backup and recovery portfolio the new DD670 too delivers the scalability and flexibility users’ organization requires as it grows.

According to EMC, the DD670 deduplication storage systems dramatically reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect backup and archive data. By identifying and removing redundant, variable-length data sequences before they are stored to disk, DD670 systems provide a storage footprint that is 10 to 30 times smaller, on average, than the original dataset.

Jackson, senior director of product marketing at EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division has commented that these new capabilities demonstrate EMC's commitment to the price/performance leadership of its next generation disk-based backup products and expanded deduplication use cases such as mainframe. They continue to outpace competition by leveraging the Data Domain SISL scaling architecture and new Intel (News - Alert) processor technology to drive higher levels of system performance and capacity.

The company has also released the EMC Disk Library 5000 series, as well as a new deduplication storage expansion option for its Disk Library for Mainframe system. Also 2 terabyte disk drives are now supported in expansion shelves for the new DD670, the EMC Data Domain DD880 and the recently announced EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array.