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ExEcutivE Summary 3
introduction 4
commvault Galaxy and data domain
at Work 6
HiGH PErformancE rEcovEry and BackuP 8
flExiBility: SimultanEouS BackuPS,
rEStorES, and auxiliary coPiES 9
dEduPlication StoraGE:
cHanGinG StoraGE EconomicS 9
Wan vaultinG: diSaStEr rEcovEry
and rEmotE SitE ProtEction 10
HiGHly rEliaBlE, ProactivE vErification
of data rEcovEry 11
imProvEd lonG-tErm arcHival for
offSitE taPE coPiES 12
oPtimizEd for naS and San tHrouGH
ndmP and vtl 12
HiGH availaBility data ProtEction
infraStructurE 13
concluSion 13
aBout data domain 14
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FxccuIvc Summary
With improvements in disk technology and cost,
disk-to-disk backup has become a preferred solution
for protecting data, a valuable corporate asset
However, there is a world of difference between
simply writing backups to disk and designing a
disk-based data protection solution optimized for
fast and reliable recoveries
CommVault Systems Galaxy backup and recovery
software provides an application-integrated approach
to managing and safeguarding business-critical data
for rapid, reliable data protection and recovery it
takes full advantage of disk as random access media,
allowing simultaneous backups, restores and copies
more importantly, commvault Galaxy focuses on
smart recovery strategies, enabling it organizations to
restore data in their most demanding environments
Data Domain is the industrys leading provider of
Enterprise Protection Storage systems their applianc-
es and arrays are certifed and work seamlessly with
commvault Galaxy software data domain systems
are uniquely designed for cost-effcient, fast, and
verifable data protection data domains deduplica-
tion technology provides an average of 20x compres-
sion to commvault Galaxys backup data this enables
customers to retain months of backup images for less
than $35/GB, a price that is comparable to tape data
domain systems also enable network-effcient Wan
vaulting for disaster recovery (dr), remote offce data
protection and tape consolidation all under the
control of commvault Galaxy
in addition, data domain systems offer unprec-
edented levels of data integrity, verifcation and
self-healing, which are unavailable in traditional fle
systems or conventional disk systems
together, commvault Galaxy and data domain offer
remarkable improvements in performance, reliability
and tco to any it organization considering disk-based
solutions for both onsite and offsite data protection
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InIroducIon
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falling disk prices and availability of cost-effective
Sata-based disk arrays have made disk a viable
option for backup storage and network replication
targets However, simply inserting a cheap disk system
into a backup or replication process does not provide
better data protection or dr response
disk has several advantages over tape for example,
tape requires a constant stream of data for peak
performance, while disk does not Because disks
are random access devices, data fles can be more
logically organized on disk, as opposed to the linear
format of tape disk arrays also simplify and speed
up the overall backup process finally, disk offers
superior reliability in terms of recovering data
despite these advantages, disk systems are still too
expensive to serve as more than a small cache to tape
most enterprises need multiple weeks or months of
quick recoverability, requiring many versions of fles
or databases Historically, tape has been the cheapest
backup solution available, and its portability has
made it easy for companies to truck the tapes offsite
for safekeeping While disk-based recovery is argu-
ably much faster, at $10-$20 per GB even Sata raid
arrays are far more expensive than $1-$5 per GB for
tape-based backups With a delta this large, most it
departments choose cost over speed
today, data deduplication has turned the tables in
disks favor By eliminating redundant fles during the
backup process, deduplication can compress the origi-
nal data by an average of 20x, dramatically reducing
the amount of disk storage and the associated cost
required for a disk-based solution moreover, with
this smaller footprint, the data can now be vaulted
over an existing Wan to an offsite location, thereby
eliminating the need to drive tapes offsite
Storing backup data on a conventional fle system has
risks of its own; if the fle system becomes inconsis-
tent or corrupted, recovery data is lost this is why we
back up data in the frst place
an effective disk-based data protection solution
requires enterprise-level backup and recovery software
that takes advantage of disk as a random access device
and a robust, reliable storage system to make deep
retention and network vaulting economically and
operationally feasible at the same time, the solution
must ensure improved reliability and data integrity
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the purpose of backups is to recover although a
backup process may complete successfully, the result-
ing backup image is useless if users cant get back the
information they need recovery operations must
work reliably, quickly and effciently
the combination of commvault Galaxy and data
domain systems provides a cost-effective, powerful
disk-based data protection solution, focused on the
integrity and reliability of data recovery the com-
bined solution delivers:
increased backup and recovery performance
Simultaneous backup, recovery, and auxiliary copy
processes for more fexible data protection
deduplication storage to retain months of
recovery images at the cost of tape

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network-effcient Wan vaulting for more
responsive dr protection
Highly reliable, proactive verifcation of data
recoverability
optimized for naS and San environments
through network data management Protocol
(ndmP) and virtual tape library (vtl) support
High availability backup and recovery
infrastructure
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commvault Galaxy backup and recovery software is
a proven enterprise solution to protect and increase
data availability it focuses on business resumption,
not just data backup By tightly integrating with busi-
ness-critical applications such as microsoft Exchange,
Galaxy ensures data consistency
commvault Galaxy has been supporting disk as a
backup target for over a decade it is designed to take
full advantage of the random access capabilities of
disk it supports simultaneous backups, restores, and
copies (auxiliary copy) leveraging native fle systems
on disk and its two-part indexing scheme, Galaxy
software optimizes backups to disk unlike competing
solutions that treat disk as a sequential device

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data domain systems are specialized disk-based
data recovery appliances and arrays designed for
high throughput backup and recovery processes
and highly reliable recoveries With its revolutionary
deduplication technology and data invulnerability
architecture, it provides unprecedented levels of
data protection, data verifcation, and self-healing
capabilities that are unavailable in conventional disk
or tape systems
data domain systems easily and seamlessly integrate
with existing commvault Galaxy environments as nfS
or cifS fle servers or as a vtl
data domains deduplication technology, Global
compression, dramatically reduces the storage
capacity required for commvault Galaxys backup
data key benefts of Global compression include:
less than $35/GB for disk-based backups
99% bandwidth reduction for Wan vaulting or
remote offce data protection
20x storage reduction for retaining months of
backup data

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this section highlights the following confgurations
with commvault Galaxy and data domain systems:
data domain systems as backup targets either
Galaxys magnetic library or tape library devices
Galaxys auxiliary copy for creating tape copies
from a data domain system for long-term
archival or offsite tape vaulting purposes
Bandwidth effcient network vaulting using
data domain replicator
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data domain systems are specially designed to
be simple and intuitive to install, confgure, and
integrate into commvault Galaxy environments data
domain systems appear as naS appliances supporting
nfS or cifS over Gigabit Ethernet or as an emulated
vtl over fibre channel using the commvault

mediaagents, the systems are simply added as a

magnetic library or tape library device
as magnetic library devices, when multiple systems
are used, backup data can automatically span several
mount points Similar to media spanning on tape,
Galaxy also allows backup to disk jobs to span from
one fle system to another without user intervention
or job disruption, simplifying management
CommvaulI Auxlary Copy Ior CrcaIng
Japc Copcs Ior Long-Jcrm Archval
the confguration in Site a provides a solution for
creating tape copies from a data domain system
when dr or data retention requirements mandate
the use of removable media a tape library and the
system are attached to the mediaagent the system
serves as an onsite recovery repository and the tape
library provides copies for off-site storage
With commvault policy-based-management and data
retention, only selective recovery data can be copied
to tape or migrate copies of recovery data after a
specifc time period, say after 60 days
this confguration reduces the overall cost of the
backup infrastructure, which lowers operational costs
and tape requirements daily backup and recovery
windows no longer depend on the performance of
the tape library the auxiliary copy window is much
larger than the original backup window, simplifying
scheduling in addition, the data domain system is
available and accessible for backup and restore opera-
tions while copying data to tape the larger auxiliary
copy window also reduces the number of tape drives
required to complete the tape duplication process
Data Domain and CommVault Deployment Architecture
Site A Site B
Deduplication
Recovery
Data Domain
DD400 Restorer as
a magnetic library
or tape library
using the VTL
option
Backup data is
asynchronously replicated to
Site B using Data Domain
Tape library
for a tape
archive
MediaAgent MediaAgent
iDA(s) iDA(s)
CommServe
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DD560
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full backups took well over a weekend only to fnd
on monday morning the backups were incomplete
the company addressed this by implementing
commvault Galaxy software and data domain
systems, backing up to disk and vaulting across the
Wan at multiple locations the combined solution
provided a cheaper, more reliable backup solution
with the ability to replicate critical data to an offsite
location for dr purposes and tape consolidation
using smaller data domain systems, the it department
was able to centralize administration Backup reliabil-
ity was vastly improved, as was the performance for
rapid recovery, restores rely on the local repositories
using a many-to-one topology, all remote offces
then vault across the Wan to the data center in San
francisco, where tape copies are made, thus consoli-
dating tape infrastructure the company no longer
needs off-site tape vaulting services for remote of-
fces and the company copies to tape only quarterly
in addition, the company leverages bi-directional
vaulting where San franciscos local backups are
replicated to new york for online dr protection
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this confguration also takes advantage of data
domain systems ability to make off-site replication
or network vaulting much easier, faster and afford-
able the system in Site a (originator) has been
confgured to automatically replicate recovery data
to the remote system located in Site B (replica)
using optional software, data domain replicator
leveraging data domains deduplication technology,
Global compression, only post-compressed data on
the originator is asynchronously replicated to the
replica, reducing network bandwidth requirements
by over 99%
during normal operations, the data domain system
in Site a serves as the local recovery repository as well
as making auxiliary copies if this system fails or is
affected by a disaster, necessary data can be restored
across the network from the replica system or a copy
of the replica can be shipped to Site a
A CusIomcr ConguraIon Ior WAN vaulIng
the following illustrates an expanded confguration
where a customer has utilized the combined solution
of commvault Galaxy software and data domain
systems for bi-directional and many-to-one Wan
vaulting the customer, a leading investment bank,
has its data center is in San francisco with remote
branch offces in new york, Boston and india
the customer was heavily burdened by its distributed
tape-based backups this is a common problem with
protecting most remote offces since often, remote of-
fces lack experienced it system/storage administrator
Large Financial Customer Replicates Data Worldwide
DD430
DD430
Boston
Remote Sites Data Center
New York
India
Home
Email
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Home Email Oracle
Source
Destination
San Francisco: DD460
DD410
Backup Data
Backup Data
Backup Data
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using the combined solution, the company has
implemented network-effcient Wan vaulting for dr
remote offce data protection, and tape consolidation
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the combination of commvault Galaxy and data
domain delivers:
faster recoveries to meet ever-shrinking
tolerance for downtime and to reduce rising
costs-of-downtime
faster backups to meet ever-shrinking backup
windows
faster and easier tape copies for off-site archive
throughput with a single data domain controller is
up to 800 GB/hour, far exceeding current lto-4 tape
drives and many primary storage systems However,
unlike a tape drive, a system does not require con-
stant-speed streams of data for best performance
for additional performance and capacity, multiple
systems can simply be added to commvault Galaxy
confgurations
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the combination of commvault Galaxy and data
domain serves the very purpose of backups to
enable faster, more reliable recoveries By recovering
data at the speed of disk, Galaxy software can deliver
an order of magnitude improvement in recovery
performance and reduction in downtime costs
recoveries from disk eliminate mounting, positioning,
and unmounting delays associated with tape-based
backups data domains useable capacity for multiple

months of data retention allows recoveries to come

from disk
the random access advantage of disk is especially sig-
nifcant with a partial restore where only a few fles
need to be recovered Partial restores from a system
is up to 10 times faster than restoring from tape the
partial or single fle recovery performance is critical
because according to the Strategic research Group,
87 percent of all restores are single fle recoveries,
not full system recoveries
increased recovery performance allows it organiza-
tions to meet increasingly stringent Service level
agreements for time-to-recovery, resume business-
critical applications more quickly, and reduce the
impact of primary storage data loss
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the combined solution optimizes backup perfor-
mance while accelerating recovery performance
using its ability to stream data to disk utilizing
multiple read/write heads, Galaxy allows multiple,
simultaneous backup streams at varying speeds to be
sent to one data domain system using multiplexing
for optimal performance is no longer required
again, backups to data domain systems do not
require allocation of tape cartridges or tape drives,
robotic movement, media mounting, media position-
ing, media offine, or media eject operations
increased backup performance allows it organiza-
tions to complete backups within allowed backup
windows and meet high availability requirements of
business-critical applications
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With data domain systems and Galaxys auxiliary
copy feature, making tape copies is much easier
and faster a single data domain system can stream
a high-end tape drive for best performance Since
backup images on the system are not multiplexed,
there is no need to demultiplex them during the
auxiliary copy process data domain systems allow
data to be written to tape contiguously to speed up
future restores
FlcxblIy:
SmulIancous 8ackups, RcsIorcs,
and Auxlary Copcs
commvault Galaxy enables concurrent read and
write operations to a data domain system, allowing
simultaneous backups, restores and auxiliary copy
operations
in contrast, since removable media (tape cartridges
and optical disks) can only be accessed for one opera-
tion at a time, the storage administrator must plan
carefully to avoid resource contention
Given a data domain systems useable capacity,
ranging from 65 tB to 125 PB, recovery operations
will leverage the disk media (or magnetic library) if
backups are running when an urgent restore request
is issued, the restore request is fulflled immediately
without pausing the backup process With a tape
drive, the backup tape must be unloaded and the
restore tape(s) must be loaded only when the
restore process is fnished (which may take minutes to
hours) can the backup job continue
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Changng SIoragc Fconomcs
data domain systems offer 65 tB to 125 PB of use-
able capacity in a very small footprint a 3u chassis
that fts in a standard 19-inch rack
this capacity enables data domain systems to store
multiple months of backup images for less than
$35/GB, comparable to tape this capacity ensures
rapid recoveries, taking advantage of performance
benefts of disk
in addition, Global compression enables Wan vault-
ing economically and operationally feasible
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data domains deduplication technology, Global
compression, reduces data down to its raw essentials
by pooling redundant patterns within a fle, across
fles, and even within a block, and stores only
unique data segments this compression algorithm
aggressively minimizes the capacity needed for
storing backup images to commvault Galaxy, Global
compression happens behind the scenes Galaxy
simply writes to and reads from a large nfS or cifS
fle system or a vtl on a data domain system
With Global compression, the benefts increase over
time the frst full backup will typically see about
3-4x compression; subsequent differential incremen-
tal backups will see 6-7x compression; subsequent
full backups will see 50-60x compression in a typical
weekly full, daily differential incremental backup
policy, this results in 20x aggregate compression
after 12 weeks
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the following is a customer example, illustrating the
effectiveness of Global compression two months of
backup data 79 tB (or 80747 GB) -- was retained in
a system, taking up only 3775 GB of physical storage
this yielded a 21:1 compression ratio
ImpacI oI 0lobal Comprcsson
on SynIhcIc Full 8ackups
a Synthetic full Backup consolidates the most recent
full backup (standard or synthetic) and subsequent
incremental and/or differential backups the goal is
to improve restore performance by creating a full
backup image (or one archive fle) as though a full
backup was performed at the time of the last incre-
mental backup
in the following confguration, a standard full backup
and subsequent incremental backups are directed to
a data domain system this enhances the usability
and effciency of Synthetic full Backups since there is
no need to mount as many tapes to create a Synthetic
full Backup then these backups are consolidated
into Synthetic full Backups and saved on the same
system this ensures that a full backup image is avail-
able online for recovery operations
as the destination for Synthetic full Backups, the
system greatly benefts from its Global compression
which stores only unique data segments Because
Synthetic Backups are created from existing backup
images already saved on the system, Synthetic
Backups do not require additional storage
Synthetic Fulls Benet from Data Domain Deduplication
Standard full backup to a
Data Domain appliance
(Week1: Sun)
Synthetic Full Backup
to the appliance
Current as of Sat
No new data segments
are saved on the appliance
Incremental backups to the
appliance (Week 2: Mon-Sat)
Incremental backups to the
appliance (Week 1: Mon-Sat)
Synthetic Full Backup
to the appliance
Results of Deduplication (Customer Example)
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all of the storage savings from data domains Global
compression are also applied to Wan vaulting, dramati-
cally reducing the Wan bandwidth costs in replication
using the data domain replicator software, backup
data from a system is asynchronously replicated to a
remote system over tcP/iP lan or Wan data domain
offers a variety of options for deploying different
topologies cost-effectively:
one to one, simple mirroring
Bi-directional vaulting
many-to-one remote site vaulting
directory
for simple disaster protection, it would be suffcient
to vault backup images from one data domain
system to another where the replica system becomes
the asynchronous mirror of the originator system
the other vaulting confgurations offer additional
fexibility for remote offce protection, responsive dr
protection and multi-site tape consolidation
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one of the biggest challenges for tape is indeter-
minate backup quality a backup process may have
completed successfully but it is diffcult to verify
that data on all of the tapes is recoverable one bad
tape can cause a restore operation to fail and this is
often discovered at the worst possible time during
a recovery

disk-based backups can take advantage of raid ca-

pabilities offered by the storage subsystem However,
the combination of data domain and commvault
offer unprecedented levels of data integrity and
reliability designed specifcally for backup images to
ensure recoverability
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data domains reliability goes beyond raid protec-
tion neither ata raid nor tape provides this level of
built-in, redundant data protection data domains
data invulnerability architecture protects against
data loss from hardware and software failures at
multiple layers:
file system consistency verifcation and
self-healing at the time of backup as well as
continuously in the background
append-only fle system software fault protection
data integrity verifcation and self-healing: initial,
ongoing, and online
double-parity raid-6 in case of disk failure
nvram (non-volatile ram) for storage buffering
for a hardware or power failure
if errors are detected at any level, the systems can
self-heal from metadata and error-correcting codes
stored within the system in many cases, errors are
repaired online and error corrections are noted in the
systems log in rare cases where the data domain
systems fle system needs to be unmounted for
repair, the system will send out an alert via email so
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commvault Galaxy provides the data verifcation
option for the contents of a backup during a data
verifcation operation, the integrity of data is checked
to ensure that the data can be successfully restored or
copied for an auxiliary copy operation
the data verifcation option can be confgured to run
after all backups, all full backups, or backups occur-
ring on or after a certain date
tape-based backups do not take advantage of this
option effectively since the operation can disrupt
already scheduled backups by creating tape resource
contention the data verifcation operation for
backup images on the system does not create
resource contention since disk and magnetic libraries
allow simultaneous accesses
the combination of Galaxys data verifcation and
data domains data invulnerability architecture
ensures reliable and successful data recoveries
Improvcd Long-Icrm Archval Ior
0IIsIc Japc Copcs
the combined solution enables it organizations to le-
verage investments in the existing tape infrastructure
to create long-term archives or dr copies, especially
when removable media is required using Galaxys
auxiliary copy and Synthetic full Backup capabilities,
tape copies can be automatically created from data
domain systems
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using data domain systems increases the effciency,
speed, and fexibility of your data protection
process at the same time, it lowers tape-related
infrastructure costs
Since the existing tape infrastructure is used for
offsite archiving or tape vaulting, any upgrades to
the tape infrastructure can be deferred Backups are
sent to data domain systems then copied to tape
in the background Because Galaxy client system
performance is not impacted, tape copies can run at a
slower data transfer rate
in addition, only a subset of backups may need to be
copied to tape for example, a service level agreement
may dictate that only weekly full backups are dupli-
cated to tape and retained for an extended period
daily incremental backups written to data domain
systems do not need to be copied to tape, further
reducing tape drive and removable media costs
0pImzcd Ior NAS and SAN
Ihrough N0MP and vJL
commvault Galaxy provides performance, reli-
ability, and ease-of-management required to protect
multi-terabyte naS flers ndmP provides a standard
network interface for managing backup control and
data movement from naS flers using ndmP to
control the backup and recovery processes, Galaxy
offers the fexibility of targeting fler backups to
both tape and disk media this enables data domain
systems to save fler backups effciently
data domain also offers a vtl option that provide
emulation of up to 64 active virtual lto drives across
up to 100,000 virtual cartridges, supporting 1GB or
2GB fibre channel links this enables data domain
systems to be confgured as tape library devices
within commvault Galaxy environments
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unique to data domain is additional fexibility:
customers can use both the vtl interface and data
domains existing naS-style fle service interfaces
simultaneously the vtl option also supports data
domain replicator, so compressed virtual tape images
can be automatically copied across the Wan to a dr
site, using minimal bandwidth
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commvault Galaxy provides a highly available data
protection infrastructure to ensure the successful
completion of backup jobs in commvault, a data
path is the combination of mediaagent, library and
drive Pool used by the storage policy copy to perform
a data protection operation Each storage policy
copy has a default data path which will be used by
commvault to perform data protection operations
in addition, alternate data paths can be defned in
the storage policy copy this enables Galaxy to auto-
matically switch over to an alternate data path, when
one of the components in the default data path is
not available in addition to ensuring the successful
completion of data protection jobs, alternate data
paths utilize available libraries and drives in the event
of failure or non-availability of these resources
this means that alternate paths are always available
to enable access to specifc storage such as a data
domain system, even if the mediaagent that wrote
the data is unavailable
Concluson
combining commvault Galaxy and data domain
systems provides it organizations a powerful, cost-
effective data protection solution, focused on fast
and reliable recoveries commvault and data domain
improve data protection with:
High throughput backups and restores to meet
shrinking backup and recovery windows
Deduplication storage to retain several months of
backup data using a small footprint
Bandwidth- and cost-effective WAN vaulting
confgurations for remote offce and dr
protection
Highly reliable data recoveries with proactive
data verifcation
Simultaneous backup, recovery and auxiliary
copy processes for fexible data protection
Lower TCO for data protection
cost advantages of tape (less than $35/GB)
through data domains deduplication
technology
Signifcant reduction in network bandwidth
costs for network vaulting
lower backup administration costs
repurpose existing tape infrastructure or
defer tape infrastructure upgrades
Improved DR capabilities through Wan vaulting
as well as traditional offsite tape archives
Optimized for NAS and SAN environments
through ndmP and vtl support
High availability backup and recovery
With the combined solution, it organizations no lon-
ger need to choose between optimizing backup and
optimizing recovery commvault and data domain
make the backup, recovery, and dr processes faster,
simpler, verifable, and more cost effective, enabling
you to meet increasingly stringent service levels and
reduce costs

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and are compatible with leading enterprise backup software products data domains nearly 1000 customers
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