EMC enhances back-up, recovery portfolio

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Storage company EMC announced new Data Domain and Avamar deduplication systems and software.

EMC claims that the new DD990 deduplication storage system provides 6x faster and 3x more capacity than its nearest competitor.

The new software broadens Data Domain archiving capabilities for extended retention and regulatory compliance, expands Data Domain Boost ecosystem and enhances Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture.

William "BJ" Jenkins, president, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division, said: "Over time, traditional backup products that do not take this end-to-end view, in effect, paint users into a corner. Our mission is to give our customers the flexibility to architect their backup infrastructures strategically, leveraging the broad product choices and integration capabilities that only EMC can deliver, and then enable them to continually evolve their backup and recovery to help drive their IT transformation efforts."

The new Avamar 6.1 deduplication software and system delivers 3x the back-up performance and 30x the recovery performance of its nearest competitor in VMware environments, adds the company in a release.

Avamar 6.1 simplifies back-up management for business critical applications and expands Microsoft Hyper-V support to deliver complete protection for virtual server environments, adds the release.

Avamar 6.1 also simplifies backup management for key business critical applications with new support for SAP, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and enhanced support for Oracle. Moreover, Avamar 6.1 also enhances its support for virtual environments with expanded Microsoft Hyper-V features.