‘Protection Everywhere’ Strategy for Enterprise

Advancing a ‘protection everywhere’ strategy for enterprise customers, EMC Corporation announced updates to its data protection portfolio that extend its leadership in traditional purpose-built backup appliances and deliver new software solutions that disrupt the data protection status quo.

Data Domain DD9500

With new products that provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud and in the data center, EMC is enabling customers to reduce cost and complexity while protecting their data wherever it resides. EMC raised the bar for traditional purpose-built backup appliances with the new Data Domain DD9500.

Powered by the latest Data Domain software (DDOS 5.6), the DD9500 delivers performance, scalability, and application support.

Specifically, the DD9500 delivers:

• 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.

EMC also announced a host of non-traditional, software-powered data protection solutions.

Key highlights include:

• Storage Integrated Data Protection – ProtectPoint Software Enhancements: First announced in late 2014, ProtectPoint software offers enterprises a new approach to backup, eliminating the need for dedicated backup infrastructure. The newest version of ProtectPoint enables direct backup from primary storage to Data Domain and delivers 20x faster performance than traditional backup. It also natively integrates with Oracle, SAP and DB2, giving application owners and DBAs direct control of backup and recovery from their native utilities.
• Cloud Data Protection – New CloudBoost and Spanning Solutions: Just two quarters after acquiring Maginatics, EMC delivers CloudBoost, which 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 deploy Data Domain software in a variety of new deployment models for flexibility, including remote office protection, cloud providers offering data-protection-as-a-service, storage integrated data protection, and web-scale protection storage.

Data Domain DD9500, DDOS 5.6, ProtectPoint, CloudBoost, and Spanning are available this quarter. Project Falcon is a preview of a software-only version of Data Domain; availability dates will be published later in 2015.

“It’s not practical or financially sensible for us to host all of our data on the same storage platform or to protect it in the same way. We have a variety of workloads, some in the cloud, some on disk, some on flash and we need protection across them all. But different workloads need different protection. We need to intelligently balance cost against our SLAs to pragmatically meet our needs and only EMC is able to help us both to achieve that today and give us confidence for the future,” said Roy Sookhoo, VP and CTO, Ochsner Health System.

“EMC has been talking ‘software-defined’ for some time and these latest announcements show how the company is delivering against their ‘protect everywhere’ vision in its data protection and availability portfolio. EMC is increasingly focused on improvements in its software, which, in turn, will enable customers to intelligently control data protection in environments that are becoming ever more complex. With the introduction of these new features, EMC is empowering customers and partners to create simple, capable and trusted infrastructures that truly protect data regardless of where it lives or is used,” said Jason Buffington, senior analyst for data protection, ESG.

“EMC is redefining the way that data protection infrastructures are architected so no matter where data exists, we can find it, protect it, and make it available back to our customers. Our solutions for primary storage are becoming smarter, more capable and better able to rapidly manage growing workloads. We’ve designed our data protection solutions not only to keep pace but also to integrate simply and automatically, making the entire process smoother for our customers,” said Guy Churchward, president, core technologies, EMC.