“With the DD460 from Data Domain, we’ve been able to compress and store two to three months of backup data onsite. We’ve cut costs and reduced our reliance on offsite tape storage, and we can back up and restore data at incredible speeds. Best of all, we can easily verify the security and integrity of our data. We’re very pleased — the DD460 is everything we’d hoped for.” — Ephraim Baron
IT Director
EFI

Press Release

Labor Ready Selects Data Domain

Multinational Employment Agency Doubles Onsite Data Retention and Frees Up Costly SAN

Santa Clara, Calif. — July 24, 2006 — Data Domain, the leading provider of Capacity Optimized Storage (COS) solutions, announced today that Labor Ready (NYSE: LRW), a leading international temporary manual labor staffing company, has selected Data Domain enterprise data protection solutions to backup and restore its data center’s mission critical databases and applications. Up against six competitors, Labor Ready chose Data Domain for its cost-effective disk-based backup solution and ability to easily restore data.

The Data Domain DD460 Restorer replaced the company’s relatively new HP tape drive solution and freed up an expensive SAN. Labor Ready’s data center backs up 8-10 terabytes of data supporting a business that, by nature, requires data restores several times a month. Labor Ready was experiencing unacceptable delays in retrieval of crucial data from tape and reached capacity limits after attempting to use its existing SAN infrastructure for backup.

“After experiencing multiple attempts to accomplish a successful restore and watching our backup costs rise, we focused on finding a cost-effective, reliable disk-based backup solution that would enable us to backup at least two weeks worth of data and easily restore it,” said Jeffrey Zuniga, director of IT Infrastructure at Labor Ready. “Data Domain has allowed us to double the amount of data stored onsite, and keep it onsite for a full month. This is twice what we had hoped for from any vendor. As well, the Data Domain DD460 was easily integrated with our CommVault Galaxy™ backup software and the combination has logged nearly 100 percent reliability with backups and restores, with no staff intervention.”

Data Domain’s DD460 Restorer enables users to store several months of backup data onsite, with up to 200 terabytes of storage capacity. The appliance also offers high-speed backups and restores, with throughput of several hundred gigabytes per hour. Working seamlessly with leading enterprise backup software, the Data Domain DD460 is easily integrated directly into existing customer environments — bringing a level of data protection unmatched by any other storage system.

Since deploying the Data Domain DD460, Labor Ready has achieved impressive compression rates, allowing for longer onsite retention of data. Once the company moves to completely full backups, the compression rates will be even further optimized and contribute to safer recoveries. Labor Ready has reduced storage management time and staffing requirements since restores no longer tax the data center administrators. “As we moved over to disk-based backups and restores, the reliability factor went way up, the price point was much more attractive and our SAN is available for production data,” said Zuniga. “These improvements demonstrate how Data Domain has positively impacted our business operations.”

“Like many companies, Labor Ready is utilizing Data Domain capacity optimized storage to reap the benefits of disk-based backup storage, leveraging the cost point and simplicity of our approach,” said Frank Slootman, president and CEO of Data Domain. “By replacing cumbersome and unreliable tape infrastructures with Data Domain’s data protection solutions our customers effortlessly extricate their storage budgets and infrastructure.”

About Labor Ready

Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor, light industrial and skilled trades, operating under the brand names of Labor Ready, Workforce, Spartan Staffing, and CLP Resources. Labor Ready’s customers are primarily small- to mid-sized businesses in the transportation, warehousing, hospitality, landscaping, construction, light manufacturing, retail, wholesale, facilities and sanitation industries. Annually, Labor Ready serves approximately 300,000 customers and puts more than 600,000 people to work through its 887 branch locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit Labor Ready’s website at www.laborready.com.

About Data Domain

Data Domain is the leading provider of Capacity Optimized Storage (COS) solutions, enabling reliable, cost-effective data protection for the enterprise. More than 400 companies worldwide use Data Domain’s award-winning disk-based backup and recovery storage systems. Data Domain’s Global Compression, data invulnerability and replication technologies offer breakthrough compression rates reducing the cost of disk-based backup and simplifying data recovery. Founded in 2001, Data Domain is a privately held company. For more information, visit Data Domain’s web site at www.datadomain.com. Data Domain is headquartered at 2300 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 and can be contacted by phone at 1-866-933-3873 or e-mail at sales@datadomain.com.

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