Data Domain freak out

It's that time of the year again. Last week we had HP with a bulk storage product running warmed over PolyServe you can't actually buy and this week we have Data Domain showing that they're either not paying attention or too dumb to figure out how things work.

Yes, it must be time for EMC World.

In Data Domain's case it was this nugget of nose gold from today's DD690 press briefing which I found hilarious.

The identified inline deduplication competition is the IBM Diligent product, said to be about a third as fast per controller with the Diligent 1000E 4-socket server, and EMC's Avamar RAIN Grid, which is 17 times slower than the DD690.

So Data Domain's box is faster at de-dup than the Avamar back end which doesn't do any de-dup.

Since the de-dup is host based and only globally unique data leaves the NIC do I get to count the aggregate de-dup performance of all the hosts being backed up?

Yes, I do!

And someone else saved me the trouble of having to break out the calculator and run the back end numbers.

Good going Data Domain

/Golf Clap

You're looking pretty twitchy right now and the fun hasn't even started from a product and marketing stand point. But of course were I about to start fighting EMC, IBM and NetApp all at the same time I'd be twitchy too.

(Beth P. I expect my VendorFights title belt to be in the post by now)