NEWS RELEASE: EMC Data Domain Named Backup Hardware Product of the Year

 

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EMC Data Domain Named Backup Hardware Product of the Year

Data Domain Global Deduplication Array with DD Boost Takes Gold in
Storage Magazine – SearchStorage.com's Product of the Year
Competition

HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 9, 2011 – EMC®Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced
that the EMC Data Domain® Global Deduplication Array (GDA) with DD Boost
was named “2010 Product of the Year” by the editors of
TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. A panel of judges comprised of
the Storage magazine - SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction
with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants
bestowed the prestigious “Gold Award” upon the Data Domain GDA in
the Backup Hardware category. This year’s award marks the fifth time
in the last six years a Data Domain deduplication storage system has
captured a product of the year award from the TechTarget publication
group.

Shane Jackson, Vice President of Marketing for EMC’s Backup Recovery
Systems Division said, “The Global Deduplication Array with DD Boost
is truly a ground-breaking product, and this award further reinforces
what customers have already been telling us about the GDA. The Data
Domain product architecture enables rapid scaling of both throughput
performance and capacity. Since submitting for this award just four
months ago, the GDA’s performance and capacity have already
doubled.”

The latest version of the EMC Data Domain GDA, which was announced in
January of 2011, ingests and deduplicates data at a rate of up to 26.3
TB/hr (7,300 MB/s), making it the fastest dual controller deduplication
system in the world. Logical capacity of up to 28.5 PB and new support
for VTL over Fibre Channel further expands the number of user
environments and supported backup applications, such as TSM, that the
GDA can address.

Accolades from the Judges

* “With users continuing to deal with explosive data growth, data
deduplication vendors have to push the scalability and performance of
their products to keep up with that growing demand. The EMC Data Domain
Global Deduplication Array (GDA) with EMC Data Domain Boost has
delivered on that promise. Our judges were impressed with the product's
superior performance.”
* “The GDA eases management because its global namespace minimizes
the need to reconfigure complex backup policies, while it dynamically
load balances policies for performance andcapacity management. It
supports replication for up to 270 remote sites.”
* “Analysts describe Data Domain Boost as a clever piece of software
that helps to make the backup server more efficient.”
* "It's fast and getting faster," one of the judges noted.

For more information about the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication
Array with DD Boost, please visit www.datadomain.com, or the Backup and
Recovery (http://www.emc.com/products/family/data-domain-family.htm)
products page of the EMC website at www.EMC.com.

About SearchStorage.com

SearchStorage.com – the foundation site of the TechTarget Storage
Media group – is THE online information resource for the latest
storage news, tech tips and expert advice. Enterprise storage
professionals rely on SearchStorage.com as their source for valuable
information on upcoming technology and new trends in the industry. With
the largest opt-in online audience of storage buyers, its content makes
for a highly engaged audience that generates 3 million monthly
impressions.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
f
rom coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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