Data Deduplication

EMC announced upgrades to its line of Data Domain deduplication arrays, doubling performance, as well as a new online data archive deduplication device.

CommVault has released the latest version of its flashship backup software product, Simpana 9, adding dedpulication at the client level as well as snapshotting capability and automatic discovery of virtual machines for backup.

EMC today announced a new version of its Data Domain de-duplication array, the DD880, that not only doubles capacity but also offers petabytes of storage through multiple arrays linked through a single global name space.

IBM announced the availability of an appliance that de-duplicates data being backed up for mainframes, offering as much as a 25:1 data reduction ratio.

EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion. The all-cash offer is "clearly superior" to NetApp's $1.9 billion proposal, which includes stock and cash, EMC CEO Joe Tucci said in a letter to Data Domain's board that EMC publicly released.

With bidding war between EMC and NetApp still unresolved, EMC chief executive Joe Tucci issues open letter to Data Domain employees.

NetApp has claimed victory in the bidding war with EMC over Data Domain, a vendor of deduplication storage systems, though EMC insists its all-cash offer is superior to NetApp's, which combines cash and stock.

EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about $1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.

In the world of backup and disaster recovery, we’re constantly looking for performance advantages and ways to save space, especially as the storage requirements grow exponentially over time.