EMC has announced major updates to its data protection portfolio with new products that provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud, and in the data center. EMC believes that this will allow customers to significantly reduce cost and complexity all the while protecting their data wherever it may be.
EMC has announced major updates to its data protection portfolio with new products that provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud, and in the data center. EMC believes that this will allow customers to significantly reduce cost and complexity all the while protecting their data wherever it may be.
Included in these updates is the new EMC Data Domain DD9500, a traditional purpose-built backup appliance powered by the latest Data Domain software (DDOS 5.6), offering great performance, scalability, and application support.
Features of the DD9500 include:
- 58.7TB/hour performance, more than 1.5x faster performance than the nearest competitor, ensuring Data Domain can handle even the most demanding data protection requirements.
- 1,728TB usable capacity, 4x greater than the nearest competitor, enabling organizations to gain greater consolidation for data protection workloads and lower TCO.
- Data protection for Big Data applications including support for the leading Hadoop and NoSQL deployments: Pivotal HD Enterprise Business Data Lake, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub, and Hortonworks Modern Data Architecture.
In addition, EMC announced a variety of new non-traditional, software-powered data protection solutions. Key highlights include:
- Storage Integrated Data Protection – ProtectPoint Software Enhancements: First announced in late 2014, EMC ProtectPoint software offers enterprises a radical new approach to backup, eliminating the need for dedicated back-up infrastructure. The newest version of ProtectPoint enables direct backup from primary storage to Data Domain and delivers 20x faster performance than traditional backup. This new version also natively integrates with Oracle, SAP and IBM DB2, giving application owners and DBAs direct control of backup and recovery from their native utilities.
- Cloud Data Protection – New EMC CloudBoost and Spanning Solutions: Just two quarters after acquiring Maginatics, EMC delivers CloudBoost, which seamlessly connects customers’ existing EMC data protection solutions to elastic, scale-out cloud storage such as EMC ECS. Spanning by EMC expands born-in-the-cloud application data protection with Spanning Backup for Office365.
- Software-Only Data Domain – Project Falcon: Project Falcon previews software-only Data Domain that will enable customers to quickly and easily deploy Data Domain software in a variety of new deployment models for the ultimate in flexibility, including remote office protection, cloud providers offering Data-protection-as-a-service, storage integrated data protection, and web-scale protection storage.
Availability
Data Domain DD9500, DDOS 5.6, ProtectPoint, CloudBoost, and Spanning will be available this sometime this quarter. Project Falcon is a preview of a software-only version of Data Domain, with dates planning to be published later in 2015.
