The Data Domain company was founded in 2001. The Data Domain appliance was created to transition tape-based backup to disk. Disk-based backup allowed for greater compression rates and the ability to reduce storage consumption by comparing new backup data to already stored data, thus making backups much more efficient. The process of comparing new data to stored data was originally called, “capacity optimization” and has since been changed across the industry to data deduplication, or dedupe for short. Data Domain began collecting Series A and Series B funding in 2002 and eventually went public in June … READ MORE
Source: Dell Blog
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