The latest news from EMC Data Domain http://www.datadomain.com/news/ en Copyright 2010 Data Domain http://www.datadomain.com/images/datadomain_logo.gif http://www.datadomain.com/ Thu, Feb 25 2010 13:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that results from TheInfoPro’s latest Storage Study indicate EMC is cited as the top “In Use” and “In Plan” backup data reduction deduplication vendor among information technology (IT) storage users at Fortune 1000 enterprises. In addition, this latest Storage Study again placed data deduplication technology at the top of TheInfoPro’s Storage Networking Technology Heat Index®, which gauges immediacy of user needs and planned spending for various technologies. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_022510.html EMC® Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Data Domain®, a high-growth, industry-leading company that it recently acquired, ranked number seven on the Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte LLP’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004–2008. Data Domain revenue grew more than 35,000 percent during this period. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_110509.html EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a significant upgrade to the EMC® Data Domain® midrange and entry-level deduplication storage systems, helping to drive continued scaling of performance and capacity across the entire product line. Similar to the company’s Data Domain high-end solutions, the new DD630, DD610 and DD140 systems leverage the power of Data Domain's SISL™ (Stream Informed Segment Layout) scaling architecture to dramatically increase throughput performance and capacity. Data Domain systems continue to ride the price performance wave of multi-core processor architectures and avoid dependency on oversized storage subsystems for throughput. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_101909.html EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Generali International, a long-established provider of financial and insurance services and part of the Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A (Generali Group), has selected EMC® Data Domain® deduplication storage solutions to help dramatically reduce the storage capacity required to backup and protect its virtualized server infrastructure. Generali has also incorporated network-efficient replication to ensure its enterprise-wide production data is secure at its disaster recovery (DR) site for business continuity and compliance-related activities. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_101409.html EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Lawson, Inc. has selected an EMC® Data Domain® deduplication storage solution to more efficiently and reliably protect its operational data assets and is using the system in production. Lawson is well-recognized convenience store chain operating nationwide in Japan. The company has chosen to implement a Data Domain solution to bolster its backup and recovery processes efficiently, as well as to simplify its storage operations and management. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_092809.html EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced the industry’s first cascaded replication capability for its Data Domain inline deduplication storage, one of several enhancements to the company’s Data Domain Replicator software option. The ability to cascade replicated data enables enterprise organizations to enhance their disaster recovery (DR) strategy by using network-efficient replication to electronically transfer deduplicated backup and archive data to a third destination or to additional offsite locations. In addition, Replicator software now supports up to 180-to-1 remote site fan-in to a single controller for expanded automated cross-site deduplication and up to 100% faster directory replication throughput using highly optimized, multi-stream replication. Together, these capabilities provide scalable, enterprise-ready deployment flexibility to large, distributed enterprises. Users can now more easily and cost-effectively achieve their DR and tape consolidation objectives while simplifying and accelerating DR readiness. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_092209.html Data Domain, an EMC (NYSE: EMC) company and the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced that the Data Domain DD690 system has been recognized by Business Solutions Magazine as one of the best channel products for 2009. The award recognizes the DD690 system’s reliability, ease of integration and rich feature set. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_090209.html Data Domain, an EMC (NYSE: EMC) company and the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced presentations at two speaking sessions at the upcoming VMworld 2009 conference in San Francisco. The sessions highlight the benefits of combining deduplication storage and virtualization to enable enterprise-wide data consolidation benefits. Jules Thomas, Senior Systems Administrator for Pitt Ohio Express, a regional less-than-truckload freight company located in Pennsylvania will discuss the advantages and benefits realized by architecting a virtualized data center with VMware and Data Domain. The primary data center at Pitt Ohio Express is more than 70% virtualized today with a near-term goal of a 99% virtual environment, and the entire data protection operations can be managed remotely. Mr. Thomas will also demonstrate virtual server backup and recovery techniques during the session. VMworld 2009 takes place August 31 through September 3 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_082609.html Data Domain, an EMC (NYSE: EMC) company and the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced presentations at three speaking sessions at the upcoming SHARE in Denver 2009 Conference. These discussions will cover a variety of topics related to deployment challenges of traditional tape-based backup processes and the wide range of benefits associated with inline deduplication storage as a more efficient backup, recovery and disaster recovery (DR) solution. Data Domain will be jointly presenting with executives from Luminex and Ingram Entertainment, the leading national distributor of home entertainment products. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_081909.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced it will cancel the release of financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009 which were previously scheduled to be released shortly after the close of market on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 as a result of the announced majority ownership of Data Domain by EMC. Data Domain has also cancelled the conference call and live webcast previously schedule at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) that day. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_072009c.html EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired majority ownership of Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP). Once EMC completes the acquisition of Data Domain, which is expected by the end of July, Data Domain will become the foundation of a new product division within EMC’s storage business focused on the development and delivery of next-generation disk-based backup, recovery and archive solutions. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:45:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_072009b.html Data Domain (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced the Data Domain DD880, the industry’s highest performance inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup and archive applications. With aggregate throughput up to 5.4 TB/hour, faster per controller than conventional virtual tape library (VTL) systems, and single-stream throughput up to 1.2 TB/hour to enable protection of large databases in short backup windows, the DD880 establishes consistently high benchmarks across the spectrum of common data center backup metrics. A DD880 system supports up to 71 TB of associated addressable, post-RAID, pre-deduplication disk storage. A fully configured Data Domain DDX Array with 16 DD880 controllers increases aggregate throughput performance to up to 86 TB/hour and offers up to 56 petabytes of usable capacity, delivering the capability for long-term online retention to large, consolidated data centers. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_072009.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) providing for the acquisition of Data Domain by EMC. Pursuant to the definitive merger agreement with EMC and consistent with the tender offer previously commenced by EMC, EMC will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $33.50 per share in cash. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_070809.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced it will release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009, shortly after the close of market on Thursday, July 23, 2009. Data Domain will host a conference call and live webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) that day to discuss the second quarter results. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_070209.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced that Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), a subsidiary of National Australia Bank Group, has implemented Data Domain’s deduplication and replication solutions to increase the efficiency and reliability of data protection operations for its two primary data centers. BNZ has streamlined its backup and recovery processes while reducing storage-related expenditures. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_070109.html INNOVATION Data Processing, LUMINEX and Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) announced today that their combined offerings are in production at enterprise mainframe data centers and can provide customers with simplified and cost-effective tapeless backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Users of the combined solution have reported significant improvement in Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), along with substantial capital cost and operating expense reductions. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_062209.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced two end user sessions at the upcoming Gartner IOM Summit in Orlando, Fla. IT executives from Canadian National Railway and Hilton Grand Vacations will share insights into their organizations’ successful data center re-design and storage consolidation initiatives to reduce costs and streamline operational efficiencies. Both enterprises have successfully deployed a large number of Data Domain systems in data center locations and across numerous remote sites. Data Domain is a platinum sponsor of the Gartner IOM conference. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_061909.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration with its outside financial advisor and legal counsel, recommends that Data Domain stockholders reject EMC Corporation’s (NYSE:EMC) offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $30.00 per share in cash and not tender their shares of common stock to EMC pursuant to EMC’s offer at this time. The basis for the Board’s recommendation is set forth in Data Domain’s Schedule 14D-9 filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_061509.html The Board of Directors of Data Domain (Nasdaq: DDUP) today commented on the unsolicited offer it has received from EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $30.00 per share in cash. Consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, Data Domain’s Board is reviewing EMC’s offer. At this time, the Board is not making a recommendation with respect to the EMC offer. Data Domain requests that its stockholders defer making a determination whether to accept or reject EMC’s offer until Data Domain has communicated to stockholders its position regarding the tender offer from EMC. In accordance with Rule 14d-9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, on or before June 16, 2009, Data Domain will communicate to stockholders its position regarding the tender offer from EMC. At this time, the Board is reaffirming the recommendation in favor of Data Domain’s merger with NetApp, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) that is described in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 that NetApp has filed with the Securities Exchange Commission. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_060409.html NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) and Data Domain (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced that they have entered into a revised acquisition agreement under which NetApp will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $30 per share in cash and stock in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9B, net of Data Domain's cash. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_060309.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced a customer presentation by Jules Thomas, senior systems administrator for PITT OHIO Express at the TechTarget Storage Decisions Chicago conference. This case study session, held at a special, sponsored luncheon event at the conference, details PITT OHIO Express' strategic deployment of VMware and Data Domain deduplication storage to manage data growth and maximize backup and recovery processes in a cost efficient and effective manner. Data Domain is a gold sponsor of the Storage Decisions Chicago conference. Fri, 29 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_052909.html NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) and Data Domain (Nasdaq: DDUP) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NetApp will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $25 per share in cash and stock. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.5B, net of Data Domain's cash. Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_052009.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced the introduction of secure, file-level data shredding capabilities as a feature in its Retention Lock software option. This is the industry's first inline deduplication storage solution designed to enable electronic data shredding on a per-file basis. This new shredding feature gives organizations the confidence that deleted files have been disposed of in an appropriate manner, helping them maintain confidentiality of classified material, limit liability and enforce privacy requirements. Mon, 18 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_051809.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced new feature updates to the Data Domain Replicator software option that increase global fan-in support and throughput for enterprise disaster recovery (DR). Data Domain Replicator software now supports up to 90-to-1 remote site fan-in to a single controller for automated global deduplication. This capability provides differentiated, enterprise-ready deployment flexibility across policies and topologies, along with network management options such as replication scheduling and WAN resource throttling. Data Domain Replicator also now supports highly optimized, full system replication mirroring to offer the simplest and fastest end-to-end throughput from backup ingest through restore from the replica site for deduplication storage. Mon, 04 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_050409.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009. Net revenue for the first quarter of 2009 was $79.0 million, an increase of 50% compared to the first quarter of 2008, and a decrease of 7% from the fourth quarter of 2008 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_042309.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, and LUMINEX, a leading developer and provider of mainframe virtual tape products and technologies, are demonstrating significant customer wins and momentum within mainframe data centers as these users are demanding tapeless backup and disaster recovery solutions that are robust and reliable. Enterprises such as ICW Group Insurance Companies, Ingram Entertainment and Motion Industries reflect the movement of mainframe customers that are replacing existing Sun StorageTek VSM, IBM VTS and tape library products with LUMINEX?s Channel Gateway mainframe virtual tape and Data Domain deduplication storage systems. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_042109.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced that Boston Medical Center has purchased Data Domain systems to cost-effectively protect its Microsoft Exchange email archive assets and meet state and federal regulatory objectives. The hospital's ITS department chose to implement Data Domain DD690 systems over EMC Centera based on the Data Domain solution's easy integration with Mimosa's NearPoint content archiving solution, its efficient storage reduction capabilities and Boston Medical Center's positive experience with Data Domain as an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_040709.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 2, 2009 — Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) today announced it will release financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009, shortly after the close of market on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Data Domain will host a conference call and live webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) that day to discuss the first quarter results. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_040209-b.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 23, 2009 — Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced multiple executive and enterprise customer presentations highlighting the positive impact of deduplication and virtualization technologies on data center operations at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2009. The conference takes place April 6-9 in Orlando, FL at Rosen Shingle Creek. Additionally, Data Domain will be participating in live lab sessions that allow users to gain "hands-on" experience with the latest developments in data deduplication technology, and will be leading a SNIA Tutorial on the subject. Data Domain is a platinum level sponsor of SNW. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_040209.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March 23, 2009 — Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced a major advancement for its midrange systems that drives continued price/performance increases into its product line. The new DD660, a quad-core processor based system, provides up to 50% price/performance improvement and a 50% larger base system capacity as compared to its dual-core predecessor. Like all Data Domain systems, the new DD660 leverages the power of the Data Domain SISL™ (Stream-Informed Segment Layout) scaling architecture to dramatically increase throughput performance. Data Domain systems continue to ride the price performance wave of multi-core processor architectures and avoid dependency on oversized storage subsystems for throughput. In addition, the company is now supporting 1 TB disk drives, both in the base model DD660 and in all expansion shelves for both the DD660 and DD690. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_032309.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March 4, 2009 — Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced the ability to provide new levels of storage efficiency for AS/400 - System I users. Data Domain has partnered with AS/400 - System I backup software specialist, LaserVault to bring the cost and management benefits of data deduplication to midrange computing environments. All Data Domain systems are qualified with LaserVault Backup and easily integrate into AS/400 - System I environments without requiring changes to the data center or distributed office. wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_030409.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March 2, 2009 —Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced the availability of its new platform operating software, accelerating the backup throughput of its current product line up to 100% from initial product specifications without any additional hardware or disk provisioning. With a simple software upgrade, Data Domain is delivering new levels of performance across all systems and customer types -- from demanding data center environments to remote offices at the edge. Users can reduce backup windows and benefit from faster time-to-DR synch when replicating. The new Data Domain operating system software, DD OS 4.6, is available now at no extra charge to existing Data Domain users with standard system support agreements. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_030209.html What: Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, will present to investors attending Morgan Stanley’s 2009 Technology Conference on Monday, March 2, 2009 at 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time. Data Domain President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Michael Scarpelli will host the presentation. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:50:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_022609.html Data Domain, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, will present to investors attending Pacific Crest's 2009 Emerging Technology Summit on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Data Domain's Senior Director of Business Development Rod Matthews will host the presentation during Pacific Crest's 3rd Annual Data Center Conference. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_022009.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 20, 2009 — Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, announced a customer presentation by Brad Blake, Director of IT for Boston Medical at the upcoming VMworld Europe 2009 Conference. This case study session will highlight Boston Medical Center's strategic deployment of VMware and Data Domain deduplication storage with a goal of maximizing data protection processes in a cost efficient and effective manner. VMworld 2009 is taking place February 24-26 in Cannes, France and Data Domain is participating as a Silver Sponsor. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_022009c.html What: Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, will present to investors attending Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:40 a.m. Pacific Time. Data Domain President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Michael Scarpelli will host the presentation. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_022009b.html