EMC Launches Data Domain DD670 Deduplication Storage System

EMC Corporation, the world’s leader in data infrastructure solutions, today introduced a new, midrange deduplication storage system that drives continued price/performance increases into the Data Domain product. The new EMC Data Domain DD670, which incorporates the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series, is over two times quicker than midrange rivals using lately released EMC Data Domain Boost software and up to 1.5times quicker when used as a virtual tape library.

EMC also articulated its new EMC Disk Library 5000 series in addition to a new deduplication storage growth option for its Disk Library for Mainframe system. In addition, two terabyte (TB) disk drives are now supported in enlargement shelves for the new DD670, the EMC Data Domain DD880 and the recently revealed EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array. The bigger capacity disk drives are also available for the new Disk Library series. Communally, these new offerings advance the complete range of EMC disk-based backup and recovery products, providing important performance and capacity increases to a broad scope of users.

“These new capability demonstrate EMC’s commitment to the price/performance leadership of its next generation disk-based backup products and expanded deduplication use cases such as mainframe,” said Shane Jackson, Senior Director of Product Marketing, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division. “We keep on outpacing competition via leveraging the Data Domain SISLTM (Stream-Informed Segment Layout) scaling architecture and new Intel processor technology to drive higher levels of system performance and capacity.”

Data Domain DD670 New Midrange Deduplication Storage structure

The new DD670 midrange deduplication storage system offers up to 5.4 TB per hour of total inline deduplication throughput. The system supports up to 76 TB of raw capacity or up to 2.7 petabytes (PB) of logical capacity with fifty times data reduction. A single DD670 system can support duplication fan-in from up to ninety remote offices using smaller Data Domain appliances like the DD140 or DD610, delivering a fully-automated catastrophe recovery capacity for distributed ventures. Overall, the DD670 delivers major price / performance enhancements to backup and recovery processes and more capacity for extended online retention.

The base model includes twelve TB of disk in a 2U rack mount chassis and supports growth shelves with either 1 TB or 2 TB SATA drives yielding a 2.1 times increase in rack density. Like all Data Domain systems, the DD670 is easy to install and sufficiently flexible to implement into existing user environments without interruption. Data Domain systems offer broad application support on several storage fabric. This includes NFS, CIFS, Symantec OpenStorage or EMC Data Domain Boost over one or ten Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and / or VTL over Fibre Channel.
An 8 GB Fibre Channel connectivity alternative is also now available for the DD670 and DD880.
Disk Library for Mainframe ( DLm ) latest Deduplication Storage Growth Option *The new Deduplication Storage Growth option permits DLm960 users to gain longer onsite retention, optimised copying and lower overall disk and tape storage costs for their mainframe backup and repository workloads.
Based mostly on the widely adopted Data Domain DD880 deduplication storage system, this option helps the mainframe user to seriously improve backup and recovery processes while easily integrating into the mainframe environment.
The DLm960 with the Deduplication Storage Growth option scales from two to six Virtual Tape Engines (VTEs) supporting up to twelve FICON connections and front-end eat performance over 4.3 TB an hour.
The DLm960 solution combines low cost SATA drives, RAID six protection, hot-standby disks, tape imitation and hardware compression. With this release and dependent on the deduplication proportion achieved, the DD880 may supply an additional petabyte of logical storage space in a single cupboard bringing the maximum capacity of the DLm960 to just about 3.5 PBs of logical capacity.
Disk Library 5000 Series New Scalable Virtual Tape Library Systems *The new DL5000 series scales from eight TB up to 1.4 PB of serviceable storage which yields up to 2.8 PB of logical capacity, with a typical compression proportion of 2:1. The DL5000 series offers up to 10.2 TB / hr eat performance in a single system.
The 2 models in the DL5000 series, the DL5100 and DL5200, are composed of one and 2 Disk Library engines respectively. Based primarily on the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series, the Disk Library engine includes new hardware compression cards and 3 eight Gb Fibre Channel ports. The twin engine DL5200 offers active engine failover, which supplies a very available system that may continue operating after a single engine failure. Like all EMC Disk Library systems, the new DL5000 series includes complicated virtual tape functionality perfect for environments looking to improve existing tape frameworks with the advantages of disk based backup. This functionality contains disk spin down and consolidated media management.

Consolidated media management supplies the industries only inserted backup media server in a virtual tape library. The inserted media server is available for EMC NetWorker or Symantec NetBackup and permits the backup application to control data movement including direct tape out from the Disk Library system. This option also gives a single management interface of both the physical and virtual tape pools.