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EMC Introduces Midrange Deduplication Storage System

EMC Corporation has announced a new midrange deduplication storage system that the company says drives continued price/performance increases into the Data Domain product line. As noted in this PR Newswire release, the new EMC Data Domain DD670 incorporates the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series and uses the recently released EMC Data Domain Boost software.

"The new DD670 midrange deduplication storage system offers up to 5.4 TB per hour of aggregate inline deduplication throughput. The system supports up to 76 TB of raw capacity or up to 2.7 petabytes (PB) of logical capacity with 50 times data reduction. A single DD670 system can support replication fan-in from up to 90 remote offices using smaller Data Domain appliances such as the DD140 or DD610, delivering a fully-automated disaster recovery capability for distributed enterprises. Overall, the DD670 delivers major price/performance improvements to backup and recovery processes and more capacity for extended online retention.

"EMC also announced its new EMC Disk Library 5000 series, as well as a new deduplication storage expansion option for its Disk Library for Mainframe system. In addition, 2 terabyte (TB) disk drives are now supported in expansion shelves for the new DD670, the EMC Data Domain DD880 and the recently announced EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array. The larger capacity disk drives are also available for the new Disk Library series. Collectively, these new offerings advance the full range of EMC disk-based backup and recovery products, providing significant performance and capacity increases to a broad scope of users."