Yesterday Data Domain announced the industry’s first cascaded replication capability for inline deduplication storage.  Cascaded replication enables enterprises to enhance their disaster recovery strategy by efficiently transferring deduplicated backup and archive data to a third offsite location.

You can read the press release <a href="http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_092209.html">here</a>.

Here are my two favorite quotes from the press release:

“According to our 2009 spending survey, the top storage investment enterprises plan to make is in replication for offsite data protection,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “It is clear that companies want to shift from transporting backup tapes as the primary means of moving data between multiple sites so long as they can find an affordable disk alternative. With its inline deduplicated replication, EMC Data Domain provides an economically feasible, disk-based, off site data protection solution as it minimizes the amount of bandwidth and secondary storage needed to set up a disaster recovery site. The company’s latest advances in cascaded replication capabilities and fan-in ratios for remote office make it possible for larger enterprises to cost effectively incorporate even more applications – regardless of where the data is stored – in their business continuity initiatives.”

“Most deduplication storage systems are very immature and inflexible in replication,” said Brian Biles, vice president of Product Management of EMC’s Backup and Recovery Systems (BRS) Division. “Data Domain Replicator not only has more production implementations and years of production use than comparable deduplicating VTLs, it also has significant functionality differentiation, as demonstrated by these new features.”