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Wayne County RESA Replaces Tape in Favor of Virtual Tape Backup and DR with Data Deduplication
LITTLE FALLS, NJ, RIVERSIDE, Calif., and SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 22,
2009 — INNOVATION Data Processing, LUMINEX and Data Domain, Inc.
(Nasdaq: DDUP) announced today that their combined offerings are in production
at enterprise mainframe data centers and can provide customers with simplified
and cost-effective tapeless backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Users
of the combined solution have reported significant improvement in Recovery Time
Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), along with substantial capital
cost and operating expense reductions.
LUMINEX provides the Channel Gateway solution necessary to enable mainframe
users to deploy Data Domain deduplication storage in their enterprise
environments. The two companies have established a broad base of successful,
field-proven deployments, many of which have included data protection and business
continuance software solutions by INNOVATION Data Processing. With INNOVATION's
FDR/UPSTREAM solution, mainframe users can also backup their open systems data
through their LUMINEX/Data Domain/INNOVATION mainframe data protection
infrastructure, which can extend the benefits of virtual tape backup and
data deduplication technologies across their entire environment.
Michigan-based Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA),
serves more than 34 school districts within the eighth most populous county
in the U.S. The agency’s data center operation, including both mainframe and
open systems, has successfully combined its storage infrastructure using an
integrated solution from INNOVATION, Data Domain and LUMINEX.
“We completely replaced our physical tape infrastructure for backup and
DR, except quarterly backups, with the LUMINEX Channel Gateway using Data
Domain deduplication storage,” stated Wendy Dyke, System Programmer,
Wayne County RESA. “We use INNOVATION’s FDR/UPSTREAM product on the
mainframe to backup our open-systems servers. We were very impressed with
how well the teams at INNOVATION Data Processing, LUMINEX and Data Domain
work together. They optimized the solution to achieve deduplication and
compression rates for our full backups that are extraordinary. Now we
have a simplified and common business recovery plan that requires no
operator intervention or physical tape and we improved our Recovery
Time Objective.”
Company executives at LUMINEX, Data Domain and INNOVATION believe that their
combined solutions provide mainframe and mixed environment enterprises with
the opportunity to overcome long-standing barriers to effective data protection
processes.
“Working with INNOVATION Data Processing has been a great
experience. INNOVATION’s mainframe storage products are widely used
in the industry and their customers clearly want to eliminate the
enormous capital costs, footprint, operating expenses and lost tape
security exposures associated with tape,” said Art Tolsma,
CEO, LUMINEX. “The growing base of INNOVATION users upgrading
to LUMINEX mainframe virtual tape with Data Domain deduplication
storage speaks volumes about how well our companies work together
and the opportunity to move mainframe customers to a tapeless mainframe
infrastructure.”
“Our customers asked us to integrate our data protection and
business continuance software with the LUMINEX and Data Domain
solution. Many customers have both open systems and mainframes
in their data centers and there was a strong desire to deploy
a unified enterprise solution that would support both
environments,” said Thomas J. Meehan, INNOVATION Data
Processing Vice President, Advance Technology. “We support
both open systems and mainframe backup as well as replicated DR.
Experience with actual production data from customers shows that
the deduplication rates based on the combined LUMINEX and Data
Domain solution are quite striking. Clearly this LUMINEX and Data
Domain solution can deliver great value. Our entire suite of
INNOVATION business resiliency solutions stands ready to
leverage this value for all of our mainframe and enterprise customers.”
Beth White, Vice President of Marketing for Data Domain,
said “This combination of technologies is exciting
news for mainframe enterprises. Data Domain and LUMINEX have
been helping mainframe users shed the inefficiencies of tape
infrastructure since 2006, establishing a field-proven record
of successful implementations. With the addition of INNOVATION,
mixed environments can consolidate their entire data protection
infrastructure and reap the benefits of highly automated
disk-based backup and DR with data deduplication.”
About INNOVATION
INNOVATION Data Processing is a leading international provider of
enterprise data protection, business continuance and storage
resource management solutions satisfying customer business
resiliency requirements and information security concerns since
1972. Combining high performance design with non-disruptive
virtualization technology, easy to use and extremely reliable backup,
recovery, data replication and privileged information protection,
INNOVATION solutions eliminate business downtime while addressing
data security concerns. Actively partnering with other leading
storage technology vendors, to ensure the technological currency
of their solutions, INNOVATION is the choice of thousands of
enterprise customers around the world for their business resiliency needs.
For additional information on INNOVATION solutions and their
ability to meet your business resiliency demand for non-disruptive
business data protection, business continuance and storage resource
management, call 973-890-7300, e-mail
sales@fdrinnovation.com
or visit http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com
About LUMINEX
LUMINEX Software is a leading developer and provider of disk-based
mainframe virtual tape products and technologies. LUMINEX Channel
Gateways allow mainframe enterprise users to take full advantage of
the benefits of Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape with deduplication
solutions from Data Domain to eliminate physical tape for backup
and recovery, improve RTO and RPO, dramatically lower capital and
operating costs and improve data security. With the LUMINEX Channel
Gateways, enterprises can now have a single backup and recovery
program for their mainframe and open systems data. To find out more
about LUMINEX and its modern mainframe virtual tape solutions, visit
www.luminex.com.
LUMINEX is headquartered at 871 Marlborough Ave., Riverside, CA 92507
and can be contacted at 1-888.LUMINEX or by e-mail at
info@luminex.com.
About Data Domain
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems.
Thousands of companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems
to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers
the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data
protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes.
Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures
and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software
products. To find out more about Data Domain, visit
www.datadomain.com.
Data Domain Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including;
“With the addition of INNOVATION, mixed environments can consolidate
their entire data protection infrastructure and reap the benefits of highly
automated disk-based backup and DR with data deduplication”;
“With INNOVATION's FDR/UPSTREAM solution, mainframe users can also backup
their open systems data through their LUMINEX/Data Domain/INNOVATION mainframe
data protection infrastructure, which can extend the benefits of virtual tape
backup and data deduplication technologies across their entire environment.”;
and regarding our ability to reduce the amount of stored back-up data and
associated storage costs and to provide faster access to data and advanced
levels of data protection; and other statements identified by forward-looking
words such as “anticipated,” “believed,”
“could,” “estimate,” “expect,”
“intend,” “may,” “should,”
“will” and “would” or similar words.
These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well
as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could
cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include: the impact of
the global recession and continuing weakening of general economic and market
conditions and customer budgets for information technology spending; our ability
to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we
operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced
products to meet those needs; market acceptance of our products; our ability
to scale our distribution channels; our ability to recruit and retain personnel;
our ability to compete in our industry; our ability to maintain and expand relationships
with technology partners; our ability to protect our intellectual property; shortages
or price fluctuations in our supply chain and the performance of our contract
manufacturer; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and
other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and our other documents
filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking
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date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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