Backup and recovery of company data at its primary sites typically places high demands on the resources of a company’s IT department. The result is that data protection strategies and execution are neglected at the smaller, remote sites even though information at these remote offices may be as important as that found at the primary data center. A lack of technical resources at remote sites further complicates the problem and recent advances in disk-based backup technologies have done little to provide relief. Though some of these products allow faster backup or slightly longer retention at the remote site, it still creates an “island of backup data” that is too voluminous to replicate to a primary facility for centralized management and disaster recovery purposes.

EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems have revolutionized disk backup and remote office data protection with high-speed, inline deduplication. Backup data can be reduced in size by an average of 10-30x, so disk backup storage is now cost-effective for long-term onsite retention, and becomes a critical tool for consolidation of backup data across distributed enterprises.