What Do Leading Storage Industry Analysts Have to Say About Data Domain?

Data Mobility Group

"With a broad line of products and more than 1,800 customers, Data Domain is the clear market leader in deduplication technology."

The Taneja Group

"Little wonder then that Data Domain continues to outperform the field. Not only was it the first company, for all practical purposes, to introduce the concept of data de-duplication but it was the first company to make it an integral part of their backup/restore disk solution… But the fact that Data Domain is already on the path to do in excess of $200M in 2008 and is still clearly in the lead position in terms of experience in this area we expect it will continue to be a real player in this market."

The Enterprise Strategy Group

"Data Domain has already proven it can help customers manage capacity in nearline storage environments which has a direct impact on space, power, and cooling. With the release of the Data Domain OS 4.5 and the Retention Lock product, Data Domain further extends these benefits to information that is retained for compliance purposes."

The Enterprise Strategy Group

"Data Domain continues to address the scalability demands of large environments. The new DD580 retains the simplicity of Data Domain's appliances while raising the bar significantly in terms of de-dupe performance. In addition, Data Domain offers the advantage of immediate replication capabilities for DR applications. Enterprise-class customers will want to consider the DD580."

IDC

"Data Domain's Data Invulnerability Architecture has extra levels of data integrity protection built in to detect faults and repair them to ensure that data backup or recovery is risk-free."

TheInfoPro

"Managing storage growth is the top pain point for TheInfoPro's TIPNetwork of Fortune 1000 users and they are looking to innovative technologies like deduplication to ease that pain. The results of Storage Wave 8 show Data Domain leading in consideration among the Fortune 1000 for deduplication. The need for backup innovation using technologies like deduplication is consistent with the backup redesign activities at the Fortune 1000."

The Enterprise Strategy Group

"ESG believes Data Domain has compelling solutions whose economics are easily quantified. The company addresses end-user requirements and technology issues head on, and it stays with or ahead of the pack in terms of feature roll-out."

The Taneja Group

"With the introduction of the DDX, Data Domain has delivered a deduplicating data protection solution that is well aligned with the needs of large enterprise environments. In terms of scalability, this offering is what the biggest data centers have been asking for: an integrated high-scale, high-capacity platform with end-to-end management capabilities. Additionally, the price-to-performance ratio and integrated management capabilities should stand up well to the very high level of scrutiny applied by large IT shops. All of the elements are in place for Data Domain's DDX array to make a strong entry into this important market segment of the storage industry."

The 451 Group

"Data Domain appliances can efficiently replicate their data over a WAN, and this ability allows customers to aggregate backup data at remote sites to Data Domain units sitting at a central datacenter. With the launch of the larger DDX arrays, Data Domain now has a more legitimate place in the datacenter, consolidating large amounts of data and enhancing backup services for multiple departments. Moreover, Data Domain says the DDX simply reflects the reality of customer demand, which is moving to ever-larger systems."

The Enterprise Strategy Group

"From a pure technology standpoint, Data Domain also has a competitive 'leg up' on more established players, such as Symantec and, in particular, IBM, which recently entered this market space with their Pure Disk and TSM Express products, respectively."