I haven't heard anything [about an acquisition], Tier-1 player interests in advanced file system technologies have been picking up pace across the board. |
Over the past year, we've seen VTL become a very widely adopted interface technology for disk-based backup environments, but it has lacked capacity optimization. By extending their innovations in capacity optimization technologies to also support VTL, Data Domain is bringing new muscle to this game. This level of flexibility is a powerful differentiator for Data Domain. Customers are going to respond positively to this move, without question. |
We have seen VTL implementation expose 'new' bottlenecks. The tape drive used to be the slowest part of the backup environment, but post-VTL, the customer discovers that their network or CPU or disk arrays are too slow to feed the VTL at maximum performance. |