NGDP: Backing up with dedupe.

EMC's Next Generation Data Protection (NGDP) portfolio is stacked with products providing cutting edge technologies that provide several benefits for backing up, archiving and protecting your data.

Avamar (Data Deduplication / Remote office Backup)

Data Domain (Plug and Play back up to disk with Deduplication)

RecoverPoint (Continuous Data Protection)

Networker (Enterprise Backup and Recovery)

Centera (Content Addressed Storage, Data Archiving)

Source One (E-mail Archiving)

Today I am going to focus on the first two on the list: Avamar and Data Domain with a quick white board session. Both technologies utilize deduplication with different approaches.

The Data Domain appliances series is referred to as target based dedupe or inline dedupe and integrates with virtually any back up software out there as well it has very flexible connectivity options from NFS, CIFS and VTL.

Avamar utilizes local processing power of the client servers themselves with source based deduplication. Its great for shrinking your backup windows from several hours to minutes and an excellent choice for remote office backup.

Without further ado.... (Warning my white board is rather small).