Data Domain unveils DD880 appliance

Storage vendor Data Domain has unveiled its DD880 enterprise-class deduplication appliance in what will probably be its last product introduction before it is acquired by EMC, states ChannelWeb.

EMC said it had acquired a majority ownership in Data Domain after winning a prolonged bidding war for the company with storage archrival NetApp.

Data Domain's DD880 is the fastest backup array on a per-controller basis regardless of whether data deduplication is factored in or not, said Shane Jackson, senior director of product and channel marketing for the vendor.

An analyst has said the planned acquisition of file serving software vendor Ibrix by Hewlett Packard, is likely a move to bolster its StorageWorks offerings with scale-out storage, especially in an economic climate where storage needs aren't slowing down, Computerworld reports.

The news of the acquisition is part of a general trend towards consolidation in the data centre infrastructure space, where the current economic downturn affects smaller companies with innovative offerings and allows larger companies with cash to benefit from the situation, said John Sloan, senior research analyst with London, Info-Tech Research Group.

"Storage is one area that tends to have some kind of growth even in a slow economy because as soon as a business is operating, it tends to generate more stuff and the need to store it somewhere remains," says Sloan.

Raidon Technology has announced the latest in its line of Raid storage systems, the GearRaid multi-bay storage family, says macNN.

Consisting of three different storage devices the two-bay GR3630, four-bay GR5630 and GT5630, each Raid system is designed for SOHO and workstation use and is used to help back-up and store the user's information.

Both the GR3630 and GR5630 support USB 2.0, eSATA and FireWire 800 interfaces.