Archive for June, 2009

Poll: Who will acquire Data Domain?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Things have been quiet on the EMC/NetAppData Domain for the last couple of weeks.  DDUP's stock price remains above NetApp's current purchase offer ($30) which suggests that people think the bids will increase.  I also found some seemingly contradictory articles.  The Motley Fool suggests that EMC should back out of ...

Defragmentation, rehydration and deduplication

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

W. Curtis Preston recently blogged about The Rehydration Myth. In his post he discusses how restore performance on deduplicated data declines because of the method used to reassemble the fragmented deduplicated data on disk. He also addresses the ways various technologies attempt to overcome these issues, including disk ...

NetApp and Data Domain: ‘Til death or a better offer from EMC do we part

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

I recently blogged with my thoughts about EMC acquiring Data Domain, and wanted follow-up with a post discussing some key points about a NetApp/Data Domain merger. Since that last post there have been numerous changes including EMC suggesting that they might up their offer; the inevitable threat of a ...

NetApp is backed into a corner

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Reuters indicates that EMC will up its bid for Data Domain to as much as $35 per share. As previously posted, Data Domain’s products will fit easily into EMC’s product line replacing EMC’s current Quantum-based appliances. With this increased offer, EMC is increasing the pressure on NetApp and ...

EMC and Data Domain: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I was surprised when NetApp offered $1.5B for Data Domain and was even more surprised when EMC countered with an all cash offer of $1.8B. NetApp has since upped their offer to $1.9B of cash and stock. It is in the context of this uncertainty that I wanted ...

NetApp and EMC Duel to the Death for Data Domain

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

NetApp’s initial bid for Data Domain came as a surprise to many. EMC’s counter was even more of a shock. These discussions have very important implications for data protection and deduplication. Two thoughts immediately come to mind: It’s hard to do deduplication well. EMC and NetApp say that they ...

Introducing DeltaRemote

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

With all the recent hype, you may have missed that SEPATON launched DeltaRemote a couple of weeks ago. DeltaRemote is a software upgrade for existing DeltaStor users and enables deduplicated replication between SEPATON VTLs. Some of the new features include: Multi-node support – DeltaRemote leverages SEPATON’s DeltaScale architecture to use ...