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Customer Quotes

Data Domain has many satisfied customers, and some of them are listed on this page. They come from diverse markets such as defense, education, entertainment, finance, government, healthcare, high-tech, legal, news media, and retail.

HNTB Corporation

“With Data Domain, we’ve been able to replicate and protect our data offsite in almost real time — instead of once a week — which has greatly reduced our recovery point objectives… Data Domain has simplified our approach to backing up our physical servers and virtual machines.”

Wes Owen
Manager of Infrastructure Services
HNTB Corporation

See also: Case Study

Boston Medical Center

“Our three-year EMC Data Domain ROI was focused on reducing operating and administration expenses while increasing capacity and throughput. Data Domain has helped us achieve these goals by streamlining our backup, disaster recovery, and archive processes.”

Brad Blake
Chief Technology Officer
Boston Medical Center

See also: Case Study

Generali Group

“EMC Data Domain is now a central part of our infrastructure. As we continue to expand our use of Data Domain within the organization, any other solutions we implement will have to work with Data Domain. I am not prepared to forego the functionality and the benefits that Data Domain gives me.”

Iain Davidson
Operations Manager, Information Systems
Generali International

See also: Case Study

“With the number of restores we have, Data Domain has gained a good reputation with us. It is known to be a reliable solution. People are happy when they see their data is on a Data Domain appliance, as opposed to a tape appliance.”

Technical Architect
Leading Financial Services Corporation

See also: Case Study (PDF)

“Basically, since we are not spending all of our time doing backups, we can spend about 10 more hours per week on business projects and system maintenance.”

IT Manager
Global Equipment Supplier

See also: Case Study (PDF)

“In most cases, Data Domain completely replaced tape. In our five new locations where we started with Data Domain in the first place, we never even deployed tape.”

Technical Director
Global Communications Firm

See also: Case Study (PDF)

CN

“We could see great advantages to Data Domain's approach. And we investigated a number of companies when we looked at our storage needs.”

Kevin Whelan
Operating Systems and Storage Manager
Canadian National Railway

See also: Case Study (PDF)

Ordnance Survey

“Our backups and restores are completed with total confidence now. EMC Data Domain systems provide superb reliability. We know that when we backup, we can quickly and easily restore. We never had that sense of certainty before when we used tape systems.”

Terry Knapton
Service Delivery Manager for Data Management
Ordnance Survey

See also: Case Study

KPN

“We can do more with the same staff and have become more flexible. In addition, we are better able to address growth, without cost getting out of hand. If we did not deploy deduplication, we would need much more storage.”

Durk Jilderda
Storage Manager
KPN Wholesale & Operations

See also: Case Study (PDF)

City of Houston

“When we compared the different possibilities available on the market and completed the demos, Data Domain came out ahead in terms of functionality, performance and cost. Data Domain worked out to be about two to three times cheaper than what it would have cost us to add tape libraries or VTL.”

Rick Nicholson
Senior Central Network Administrator
City of Houston ITD

See also: Case Study

Great River Energy

“Today, our IT department is tasked with managing more than 155 TB of data across our various systems, and our tape infrastructure could not have coped with that volume based on our data retention objectives. Now we can handle this growth with ease.”

Joe Gleason
IT Systems Engineer
Great River Energy

See also: Case Study

Ingram Entertainment

“The ability to replicate has solved so many of our problems. Before, we were always worrying if we had all of our tape media accounted for. Now, every single virtual tape we create is automatically replicated to our DR site. There’s no way that we can miss something. Not many solutions can do that.”

Tim Demonbreum
Mainframe Systems Administrator
Ingram Entertainment

See also: Case Study

TiVo

“Moving off VTL and adding Data Domain deduplication storage has enabled us to reallocate a lot of space and has saved us a significant amount in future storage costs. I would estimate about 40 to 50TB of space saved for the coming year.”

Richard Rothschild
Senior IT Director
TiVo

See also: Case Study

XM

“I have nothing but favorable comments about my experience with Data Domain. The benefits to our organization are impressive and the support service has been excellent. Data Domain’s deduplication storage and replication technologies definitely provide a value proposition that few, if any, can match.”

Anthony Scalzo
Director, IT & Broadcast Operations
XM Canada

See also: Case Study

Teck

“Deduplication is a major technology trend in the storage industry at large… Data Domain is the de facto leader in the market from a customer deployment perspective.”

Laura DuBois
Program Director
Storage Software for IDC

See also: Case Study (PDF)

GMAC-RFC

“With the Data Domain systems, the restore process now takes minutes instead of the hours it used to take to recall and load the tapes. We no longer have the problems that we were experiencing and it works like a dream.”

Dieter Orth
Operational Improvement Manager
GMAC-RFC Ltd.

See also: Case Study

Fred. Olsen & Co.

“We truly believe in virtualization, and the combination of Tomato TDS and Data Domain deduplication storage has enabled us to continue our virtualization strategy. Data Domain replication of VMDK files provides us with a world class DR solution for our remote offices.”

Øivind Kristensen
IT Manager
Fred. Olsen & Co.

See also: Case Study

Wavefield Inseis

“We virtualized our servers with VMware and our nearline storage with Data Domain. What a great combination. We get the best of both worlds.”

Jan Vidar Nordstrand
IT Manager
Wavefield

See also: Case Study

Britannia Building Society

“Implementing Data Domain for our local backups and disaster recovery has enabled Britannia to continue to be a model of compliance. We are now able to ensure immediate delivery of data offsite, exceeding FSA requirements and dramatically enhancing our business continuity capabilities in the process.”

Dylan Mathias
Unix and Storage Manager
Britannia Building Society

See also: Case Study

Lancashire County Council

“The trial was the deciding factor. We were able to buy with confidence and we knew our money would be well spent.”

Dave Dickens
Assistant Director of ICT
Lancashire County Council

See also: Case Study

CAA

“It was very easy to integrate the Data Domain appliance into our environment. We use HP Data Protector software for our backups; the DD560 just became another disk-based target for Data Protector. We had it up and running within a few hours.”

Prem Ratnam
Manager, Systems & Security Administration
Canadian Automobile Association

See also: Case Study

Adobe

“With the creation of our new data center in San Jose, CA, one of our goals was to completely eliminate tape. With the Data Domain DD690, we have not only successfully eliminated tape, we now have the capacity and performance we need to execute on our plans, and we know we have the inherent scalability to expand our infrastructure to meet future needs.”

Lance Carlough
Global Data Center and Data Protection Manager
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Associated Newspapers

“In tests we saw that we could achieve pretty staggering deduplication ratios by using the Data Domain appliance alongside Vizioncore’s software — on average around 50x, but peaking sometimes at over 90x. The appliance handles any amount of data you throw at it and provides exceptionally rapid recovery.”

Steve Bruck
Infrastructure Architect
Associated Newspapers Limited

See also: Case Study

O’Neill

“Our Data Domain system has helped us to respond more quickly and effectively to IT problems, which ultimately means less downtime for our offices and staff across Europe.”

Peter Maljaars
Global Manager
IT Service and Infrastructure
O’Neill Europe

See also: Case Study

Orchid Cellmark

“Data Domain not only delivered but absolutely went above and beyond our expectations. By even the most conservative estimates, the Data Domain system is giving us all the ROI we needed and more.”

Carlos Ramos
Executive Director, IT & Security
Orchid Cellmark

See also: Case Study

Online Resources

“The high performance of the Data Domain solution enabled us to rethink our entire backup and recovery strategy. Since implementing our Data Domain solution, our backups are super fast and we can instantaneously replicate our data offsite for disaster recovery. In the event of system failure, we can recover our systems rapidly. You simply can’t accomplish that with a tape-based solution.”

Tim Hegedus
Managing Director, Technical Services
Online Resources Corp.

See also: Case Study

The Westervelt Company

“As a company, we’re very big on what we call continuous process improvement — making it faster, better and easier. The Data Domain solution was a home run in that regard.”

Michael Smelley
Senior Network Analyst & Administrator
The Westervelt Company

See also: Case Study

U.S. Army

“Our mission was to deliver more reliable and responsive communications services to soldiers in theatre on the other side of the world, who are in a very challenging environment. Data Domain helped us make it happen.”

Chief of Architecture
U.S. Army Client

See also: Case Study

San Francisco Giants

“We found Data Domain to be less costly than enterprise class VTL’s that provided replication capabilities and, of the vendors we considered, Data Domain was the only company that actually had its deduplication technology working… This is an incredibly effective backup solution that has saved us considerable time and money.”

Dave Woolley
Network Administrator, San Francisco Giants

See also: Case Study

Troutman Sanders

“After we finished implementing the Data Domain restorers, I remember coming in on Monday morning and, for the first time in five years, all of our backups were completed.”

John Thomas
IT Manager, Troutman Sanders LLP

See also: Case Study

Thomas Weisel Partners

“Of everything that came out of this project, it’s the knowledge that our data exists in two locations at all times and the confidence that it’s readily accesible that I find most comforting.”

Kevin Fiore
Vice President, Director of Engineering Services
Thomas Weisel Partners

See also: Case Study

Labor Ready

“We found that Data Domain could handle basically everything we wanted to do, plus we could store more onsite than we originally wanted — at a lower cost than competitive solutions. That was very attractive to us.”

Jeffrey Zuniga
Director of IT Infrastructure, Labor Ready

See also: Case Study

Princeton University

“With the expanded capacity of the DD460, we have experienced a marked improvement in backup reliability. Data Domain works great. The technology is sound. I have a much higher comfort level now.”

Scott Karlin
Manager, Computing Facilities
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

See also: Case Study

The University of Vermont

“The fact that we can fit 100+ terabytes of data in three rack units of space is pretty impressive. What we’ve seen from other products or what we can get with conventional disk or tape doesn’t compare to Data Domain.”

Mike Austin
Lead Systems Administrator, University of Vermont

See also: Case Study