Data Domain Joins SNIA

By Greg McNevin

April 21, 2008: Data Domain has joined all the cool storage cats and become a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and in particular a founding members of the association’s data deduplication and space reduction group.

Data Domain says it will work with SNIA and its member companies to help define, implement, qualify and teach improved and reliable methods for the protection, retention and lifecycle management of electronic data and information.

The company has also announced that it has joined SNIA's Data Management Forum (DMF) and become a founding member of the DMF’s new Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Group (DDSR SIG). This will see Data Domain work with other DDSR SIG members to advance advancing market adoption of deduplication technology.

“It is important that vendors, resellers and end users work together to collaborate on ideas and share knowledge with the common goal of developing, promoting and marketing innovative storage technologies,” said Devin Hamilton, Data Domain Principal Systems Engineer and co-chairman of SNIA's DMF Data Protection Initiative.

“As a technology, Data Deduplication holds out so many opportunities for the simplification of storage processes and data management. Still, best practices and ongoing education will be necessary to ensure that its promise is fully realized by the end user community.

“We look forward to actively contributing to SNIA's efforts,” added Hamilton.

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