Data Domain DD660 System Offers 50% Increase in Speed and Capacity for De-Dupe

Data Domain, Inc. announced a major advancement for its midrange systems that drives continued price/performance increases into its product line. 

The new DD660, a quad-core processor based system, provides up to 50% price/performance improvement and a 50% larger base system capacity as compared to its dual-core predecessor. Like all Data Domain systems, the new DD660 leverages the power of the Data Domain SISLTM (Stream Informed Segment Layout) scaling architecture to dramatically increase throughput performance. Data Domain systems continue to ride the price performance wave of multi-core processor architectures and avoid dependency on oversized storage subsystems for throughput. In addition, the company is now supporting 1TB disk drives, both in the base model DD660 and in all expansion shelves for both the DD660 and DD690.

The new DD660 midrange system offers up to 2 TB/hour of aggregate inline deduplication throughput, and up to 700 GB/hour for a single stream.  It supports up to 36 TB of raw capacity, or with 20x-50x data reduction, from 520TB to 1.3PB of logical capacity. The base model includes 12 TB of disk in a 2U rack mount chassis. Overall, the DD660 delivers major price/performance improvements to backup and recovery processes and more capacity for extended online retention.

Like all Data Domain systems, the new DD660 system is simple to install and flexible enough to implement into existing user environments without disruption. Data Domain systems offer broad application support on any storage fabric (NFS, CIFS and NetBackup OpenStorage over 1Gb or 10Gb Ethernet and/or VTL over 4Gb Fibre Channel).  

Users can deploy Data Domain systems for:

• Backup and WAN-based disaster recovery (DR)
• As a secondary storage tier to offload infrequently accessed data from tier 1 storage
• For archiving applications, such as long term retention of enterprise data for reference, litigation support and regulatory compliance

Orchid Cellmark, provider of DNA testing services for the human identity and agriculture markets, has been a Data Domain customer for more than two years. The IT organisation tested the new DD660 system using copies of its production backup data sets and compared the results to its DD560 appliance.
 
“We have nine Data Domain systems in production across our data centres, and based on our extremely positive experience we jumped at the opportunity to evaluate the new DD660 system,” said Carlos Ramos, executive director of IT and security for Orchid Cellmark. “Over three months, we tested backup and replication performance and functionality using production data sets with Symantec Backup Exec, VRanger and VCB backups, and the results were impressive. The DD660 doubled the performance of our backups and we saw a significant improvement in disk utilisation. It’s hard to make a technology that is already great even better, but Data Domain has done just that with the DD660 appliance.”
 
“There is a clear pattern emerging here,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “After a new processor comes to market, Data Domain upgrades its product line so customers, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, can store more data in a smaller footprint, and do it faster than they could be before. The DD660 news, which comes just a few weeks after Data Domain announced a software-based performance boost, proves that Data Domain is committed to cost effectively scaling its solutions in many dimensions including more performance and more capacity. With the company’s CPU centric architecture, there is no doubt that the pattern of bigger, faster, denser systems, and more importantly, satisfied customers, will continue.”
 
"The DD660 continues to prove that the Data Domain SISL inline deduplication architecture is the most hardware-efficient approach for throughput and scale," said Brian Biles, co-founder and VP of product management at Data Domain. "With the new midrange DD660 system, customers can economically increase performance, online retention and off-site vaulting for DR while improving the operational efficiency of the environment."

The DD660 is available immediately.