EMC Corporation has announced the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA) which is the industry's fastest inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications. The Global Deduplication Array based on a new multi-controller extension of the Data Domain architecture offers inline global deduplication and a global namespace for all data stored in the dual controller system. With throughput up to 12.8 terabytes per hour (TB/hour), it establishes consistently high benchmarks across the spectrum of common datacenter backup metrics. The Global Deduplication Array provides up to 14.2 petabytes (PBs) of logical backup capacity, driving new levels of simplicity for datacenter backup consolidation across workloads as diverse as very large databases, VMware images and unstructured data.
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EMC unveils Data Domain GDA
“The EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array, while very sophisticated under the hood, builds on the mature foundation of the existing Data Domain platform and retains its appliance simplicity. Its deduplication is inline, it's blistering fast, and it's big enough for significant datacenter backup consolidation, but its dynamic load balancing, single deduplication storage pool and namespace and tight integration with backup software means the Global Deduplication Array is easier to operate than competitors who don't have its scale. EMC has once again moved the dial on disk-based data protection,” Brian Biles, Vice-President of Product Management, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division
Unlike most multi-controller deduplication systems, the inline Global Deduplication Array is tightly coupled with backup software, enabling industry-leading inline deduplication performance, dynamic distribution of load and simplicity of operation. It offers more than 3x faster backup throughput per controller than competitive deduplication configurations and is the fastest inline deduplication system available.
The Global Deduplication Array presents a single inline deduplication storage pool to the backup application across two EMC Data Domain DD880 controllers. Large datacenter backup jobs are dynamically and transparently load balanced across the controllers, simplifying capacity management, performance management and backup administration.
