THE DAYS OF DEDUPLICATION APPLIANCES are fading, and they are now becoming just expensive storage with isolated operations. Data protection costs are soaring, and proprietary appliance solutions are over-priced and difficult to manage. Averaging over $1,500 per terabyte for one copy of data, Data Domain quickly becomes financially prohibitive and operationally overwhelming. In addition, if you are using a backup and recovery product to drive Data Domain you are probably paying twice for deduplication. You could also be putting your organization at increased cybersecurity risks and creating unnecessary operational complexity.
WHY REPLACE DATA DOMAIN?
Data Domain appliances are by far the most expensive, often coming in at a price per terabyte near primary storage. Because Data Domain is another siloed appliance in the landscape, security, performance, and network impact also suffer. Plus, migrating off of this redundant appliance can be a lot easier than you might think.
HOW TO REPLACE DATA DOMAIN
If you are experiencing challenges around appliance management, network traffic consumption, growing appliance costs, or restore problems, Cobalt Iron offers a cost effective and modern approach with Compass®. A flexible solution, Compass can either immediately ingest and replace the management of your workloads or migrate your workloads overtime while your contracts expire.
THE VALUE OF REPLACING DATA DOMAIN WITH COMPASS
- Reduce storage cost by up to 60%
- Mature integration with major applications including Oracle, MS SQL, SAP HANA, DB2, etc.
- Highest scaling, highest performing solutions available for these applications
- Much less expensive than Data Domain
- Unifies operations with the rest of backup and DR
- Integrates enterprise data discipline into database backup operations
COMPASS SOLUTION
Compass delivers the ability to deduplicate at either the client and/or server side. However, we don’t double charge for deduplication. Using DD Boost (or any other backup product that has its own deduplication) and Data Domain incurs a duplicate charge for clients. The backend storage also comes at a much lower cost with our solution. In addition, DD Boost introduces silo management of applications which can encourage bad behaviors
outside of enterprise data disciplines such as runaway storage and excessive network usage. The Compass solution supports all clients including Oracle, MS SQL, file systems, virtual systems, and more. These are all managed under a unified enterprise data protection solution through a single dashboard. In addition, our solution automates up to 90% of the daily backup administration operation saving both time and money.
ASK YOURSELF
- Why did you purchase Data Domain in the first place?
- If you are using Data Domain Boost, why are you paying twice for deduplication?
- Do you want to purchase more Data Domain appliances or maintenance?
Contact Cobalt Iron today to explore a new, modern approach to data protection that will save time and money!