Data Domain With New Partners

Data Domain announced that service provider partners BluePoint Data Storage, DSS (Distributed Systems Services, Inc.) and Simply Continuous are delivering new and cost effective managed service solutions into enterprise customer environments based on Data Domain deduplication storage systems. With Data Domain systems, service providers can help enterprises of all sizes eliminate tape from their operational backup infrastructure and fully automate their data replication processes for a single monthly fee.

Outsourcing disaster recovery processes via managed service providers has traditionally been viewed as cost prohibitive, particularly for larger enterprises due to the high network bandwidth expense associated with replication of large backup or archival data sets. Data Domain’s high speed inline deduplication technology dramatically reduces data volume, therefore reducing the bandwidth required for offsite replication. Data Domain enables its service provider partners to provide end users a fully automated replication solution that is both cost effective and operationally feasible. In addition, Data Domain’s efficient use of storage capacity, ease of deployment and stable architecture further drives down the overall infrastructure and administration costs for these service providers and their customers.

"The ‘software-as-a-service’ model is being driven by users’ desire to jettison the costs and complexities of managing certain functions in-house," said Beth White, vice president of marketing for Data Domain. "With Data Domain, service providers are able to quickly develop and deploy new storage service offerings based on data deduplication technology. Both the end user and the managed service provider get a highly scalable, pay-as-you-grow scenario with lower costs and less administration."

New Customer and Service Providers’ Supporting Statements
"Data Protect Vault for Data Domain allowed me to finally migrate off of tape backup without increasing my IT costs," said Vincent Kenny, Director of Information Technology at Savvion. "I couldn’t justify an ongoing investment in an antiquated and unreliable technology like tape. That’s when I turned to Data Domain and Simply Continuous to provide offsite data backup and recovery. With Data Protect Vault for Data Domain, Savvion’s information is protected in the event of a disaster and I can recover the data more quickly than I ever could with tape."

"We’re excited to partner with Data Domain to provide offsite data protection and recovery services for companies like Savvion," said Tom Frangione, President and CEO of Simply Continuous. "This solution addresses a long neglected challenge that growing enterprises face when backing up and recovering their data. For companies who rely on tape backup, Data Protect Vault for Data Domain offers markedly improved recovery time and protection at a price point that’s competitive to tape vaulting. Together, Simply Continuous and Data Domain can minimize reliance on tape for operational backups and provide a simple path to true disaster recovery capabilities."

"We have been deploying the Data Domain appliance series aggressively throughout 2008 and are thrilled with the results," said Paul Sachse, President and CEO for BluePoint. "Our ability to apply this deduplication technology to virtually any backup infrastructure has allowed us to lower our costs, improve our service, and with the deduplicated data replication, provide another on-ramp to our Business Continuance Network. We are very excited about what this technology does for BluePoint and its customers."

"Data Domain deduplication technology has eliminated the barriers we faced in bringing a high value data protection offering to our customers," said Scott Kantner, Chief Technology Officer for DSS. "From a managed service provider’s perspective, the real genius of Data Domain deduplication storage systems lies in their ability to be used in virtually any customer environment with little or no impact to the existing infrastructure and without excessive bandwidth. At every point in the data protection life cycle we have been able to lower costs, improve reliability, and accelerate recovery times for our customers — clearly a win from every angle. The Data Domain system is truly landmark technology, and we’re excited to bring it to market as an enterprise-class data protection service for our customers."