Data Domain Delivers 4x Performance, 10x Scalability

EMC Corporation announced an array of
hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new protection storage
architectures.

 
Data Domain 7200

The new products cut across the company’s Data
Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy product lines.

Backup administrators are facing increasing
pressure to meet the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders that includes
application owners, VM administrators and storage and server administrators.
Many of these stakeholders wish to increase the control and visibility into the
protection of the environments they manage and have implemented their own
solutions. The result is an ‘accidental architecture’ that consists of a
fragmented set of data protection processes and infrastructure silos, the
ownership of which is often unclear.

With this announcement, EMC is delivering a range
of capabilities that enable backup teams to transform from the chaos of the
accidental architecture to a more effective protection storage architecture
that meets the demands of the business.

Kay tenets of protection storage architecture:

• Protection Storage: The anchor of the architectures is cost- and
  capacity-optimized storage with high data durability that can deliver DR,
  backup and archive.
• Data Source Integration: Leverages both the optimized data flows and user
  interfaces of data sources including hypervisor, application and storage, to
  deliver the performance and visibility internal customers want.
• Data Management Services: A catalog of all data copies plus reporting and
  analytics for compliance.

Technology Highlights:

• New Midrange Data Domain Systems: The new Data Domain DD2500,
  DD4200,
  DD4500
  and DD7200
  systems deliver the performance and scalability to cost-effectively consolidate
  all backup and archive data onto a single, easy-to-manage protection storage
  platform. These new midrange systems are up to 4x faster and 10x more scalable
  than the existing Data Domain systems they replace. In addition, the new
  systems support up to 540 data streams, a 3x increase that further enables
  complete consolidation of backup and/or archive data. Designed to lower TCO for
  backup and archive storage, the new systems provide up to a 38% lower cost-per
  gigabyte.
• Extended Backup and Archive Application Support: Empowering application owners
  is critical to delivering a protection storage architecture. Data Domain
  systems now support direct backup from SAP HANA Studio via NFS – enabling SAP
  HANA DBAs to leverage efficient protection storage while maintaining control of
  backup processes. In addition, DD Boost for Oracle RMAN now supports Oracle
  Exadata and SAP running on Oracle – enabling DBA control of faster, more
  efficient backup and DR. To support a broader range of archive storage
  environments, Data Domain systems now offer integration with archiving
  applications from OpenText, IBM and Dell. With these new integrations, Data
  Domain systems can be deployed with over 20 products for file, email,
  SharePoint, content management and database archiving.
• Data Protection Suite Enhancements: Avamar 7 now supports all major data center workloads being directed to Data Domain
  systems, with the addition of file system and NAS/NDMP backups. With this
  addition, all major data center workloads can now be protected by the combined
  solution. Avamar extends its leadership for virtual environments with new VM
  Instant Access, which allows a VM to be booted from a Data Domain system and up-and
  running in under 2 minutes. Also, a new vSphere web client allows VMware
  administrators to manage Avamar backup and recovery directly from a familiar
  interface. NetWorker 8.1
  introduces new integrated snapshot management, featuring a new wizard-based
  user interface, auto-discovery, and intelligent assignment of snapshot storage.
  Integrations with Data Domain systems are tightened, with Data Domain Boost
  support over FC. This enables 50% faster backups and 2.5x faster restores
  compared to VTL-based configurations. Finally, NetWorker is delivering a
  refresh of its VMware support, leveraging Avamar technology services.
• New Cloud Backup Functionality: Mozy
  makes it easier to scale cloud backup while reducing cost and complexity. New
  Active Directory integration reduces the administrative burden of separately
  creating user accounts and enhances self-service, which reduces the TCO.
  Simplified storage management introduces new storage pools which means less
  time spent monitoring storage quotas at the individual machine level. Finally,
  keyless activation accelerates the process for provisioning new users,
  resulting in greater scalability.

Mike Strenge, SVP, information technology, Great
Western Bank, said: "Previously, Great
Western Bank struggled just to meet backup and recovery SLAs, and still worried
about our ability to recover data and systems in a fashion that carried no
impact to our business in the event of a disaster. EMC’s data protection
solutions alleviated those most basic concerns, and have additionally enabled
the IT team to take a more strategic role in the bank’s aggressive acquisition
objectives. We’re confident that we have the data protection infrastructure to
support the change and growth of our business objectives. The flexibility and
choice that come with EMC’s suite of integrated software and hardware solutions
gives us the opportunity to architect our data protection strategy without
having to choose from a set of compromises."

Robert Amatruda, research director for data protection
and recovery, IDC, said: "Organizations must have an effective data
protection strategy and infrastructure in place as they transform their IT and
business objectives. EMC’s array of data protection solutions announced represents
coalescence of proven, existing products with new features and functionality
allowing customers to free themselves from the antiquated backup products and
processes to a more flexible, holistic approach."

Guy Churchward, president, EMC backup recovery systems
division, said: "Deployment of a Protection Storage Architecture, which
arrests the proliferation of the ‘accidental architectures’ we talk so much
about, is the best strategy for ensuring effective data protection. Accidental
architectures are an outgrowth of users addressing individual data protection
challenges reactively as they arise, and applying costly silo’d or ‘one size
fits all’ products and solutions that become difficult to manage, optimize and
pay for. The products we’ve announced pave the way for our customers to
consolidate their data protection strategy and infrastructure, and enable them
to proactively prepare for the data protection challenges that accompany
transformational IT initiatives."

All new EMC data protection products will be available in the third quarter of
2013 and will also be available within VSPEXProven Infrastructures.