“Since implementing the Data Domain Restorer we have retired the six DLT tape drives and the 126 tapes used to back-up our data stores. We now rely on the Restorer for all our back up and restore needs.” — Ned Rendell
MIS Director
Mohler, Nixon & Williams

What Do Leading Storage Industry Analysts Have to Say About Data Domain?

The Enterprise Strategy Group

“Data Domain continues to address the scalability demands of large environments. The new DD580 retains the simplicity of Data Domain’s appliances while raising the bar significantly in terms of de-dupe performance.  In addition, Data Domain offers the advantage of immediate replication capabilities for DR applications. Enterprise-class customers will want to consider the DD580."

—Heidi Biggar, Analyst

Source: Data Domain Sets New Standard for Data Deduplication Price/Performance, May, 2007

IDC

“Data Domain’s Data Invulnerability Architecture has extra levels of data integrity protection built in to detect faults and repair them to ensure that data backup or recovery is risk-free.”

—Laura DuBois, Research Director, Storage Software

Source: Bulletproofing the Datacenter for Data Protection and Recovery, January, 2007

TheInfoPro

“Managing storage growth is the top pain point for TheInfoPro’s TIPNetwork of Fortune 1000 users and they are looking to innovative technologies like deduplication to ease that pain. The results of Storage Wave 8 show Data Domain leading in consideration among the Fortune 1000 for deduplication. The need for backup innovation using technologies like deduplication is consistent with the backup redesign activities at the Fortune 1000.”

—Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of Storage

Source: Storage Wave 8 End User Study, December, 2006

The Enterprise Strategy Group

“ESG believes Data Domain has compelling solutions whose economics are easily quantified. The company addresses end-user requirements and technology issues head on, and it stays with or ahead of the pack in terms of feature roll-out.”

—Heidi Biggar, Analyst

Source: Data Domain Introduces Scalable DDX Array; Goes After Enterprise Users, November, 2006

The Taneja Group

“With the introduction of the DDX, Data Domain has delivered a deduplicating data protection solution that is well aligned with the needs of large enterprise environments. In terms of scalability, this offering is what the biggest data centers have been asking for: an integrated high-scale, high-capacity platform with end-to-end management capabilities. Additionally, the price-to-performance ratio and integrated management capabilities should stand up well to the very high level of scrutiny applied by large IT shops. All of the elements are in place for Data Domain’s DDX array to make a strong entry into this important market segment of the storage industry.”

—Brad O’Neill, Senior Analyst and Consultant

Source: Press release: Data Domain Introduces Next Generation of Enterprise Protection Storage, October, 2006

The 451 Group

“Data Domain appliances can efficiently replicate their data over a WAN, and this ability allows customers to aggregate backup data at remote sites to Data Domain units sitting at a central datacenter. With the launch of the larger DDX arrays, Data Domain now has a more legitimate place in the datacenter, consolidating large amounts of data and enhancing backup services for multiple departments. Moreover, Data Domain says the DDX simply reflects the reality of customer demand, which is moving to ever-larger systems.”

—Henry Baltazar, Storage Analyst/Simon Robinson, Sector Head

Source: Impact Report: Data Domain Plans Datacenter Assault with DDX, October, 2006

The Enterprise Strategy Group

“From a pure technology standpoint, Data Domain also has a competitive ‘leg up’ on more established players, such as Symantec and, in particular, IBM, which recently entered this market space with their Pure Disk and TSM Express products, respectively.”

—Heidi Biggar, Analyst

Source: Report: Data Domain Tells a Compelling Tape-less Story, May, 2006