EMC Data Domain Named 2010 Product of the Year

Whenever a company's product earns an important award, it stands to reason that the outfit would issue a press release to celebrate, and this is exactly what EMC has done for the Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA) with DD Boost.

On every segment of the IT market, there are committees and events meant to choose between the best of the best and grant awards depending on quality of service and performance, as well as whatever other elements are relevant to a certain type of hardware (aesthetics, power consumption, etc.).

This once, it was a panel of judges comprised of the Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, along with a team of consultants, analysts, users and industry experts that decided which product led the backup hardware category.

The editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group gave the “Gold Award” to the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA) with DD Boost ("2010 Product of the Year" prize).

"The Global Deduplication Array with DD Boost is truly a ground breaking product, and this award further reinforces what customers have already been telling us about the GDA,” said Shane Jackson, Vice President of Marketing for EMC's Backup Recovery Systems Division.

“The Data Domain product architecture enables rapid scaling of both throughput performance and capacity. Since submitting for this award just four months ago, the GDA's performance and capacity have already doubled."

This is the fifth time in six years that a Data Domain deduplication storage system was given this prize.

"The GDA eases management because its global namespace minimizes the need to reconfigure complex backup policies, while it dynamically load balances policies for performance and capacity management. It supports replication for up to 270 remote sites,” explained one of the judges.

As far as new accomplishments go, EMC's latest GDA was unleashed in January, 2011 and can deduplicate data at up to 26.3 TB/r, meaning 7.300 MB/s (it is the fastest in the world). This page should have all the data one might need on it.