subsidiary of emc corporation industry deduplication founded 2001 founder kai li brian biles headquarters santa clara california website www.emc.com datadomain data domain corporation was an information technology company from 2001 2009 specializing in target based deduplication solutions for disk based backup . 1 since its acquisition by emc corporation in 2009 data domain systems have been emc s flagship protection storage platform for backup archive and disaster recovery . contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 acquisition by emc 4 references 5 external links history edit data domain was founded by kai li ben zhu and brian biles . 2 chief architect hugo patterson joined 3 months after initial funding . the company incubated in a series of venture capital offices ; pre funding at usvp where ben was an eir then at nea where kai was an eir and post funding at greylock nea and greylock provided series a funding in 2002 . the first product revenue was in the beginning of 2004 . the goal of the company was to minimize the tape automation market with a disk based substitute . it did this by inventing a very fast implementation of lossless data compression optimized for streaming workloads which compares incoming large data segments against all others stored in its multi tb store . originally categorized as capacity optimization by industry analysts it later became more widely known as inline data deduplication also unlike most non archival computer storage products it went to extreme technical lengths to ensure data longevity vs. system longevity . its design goal was to be the storage of last resort . unlike most of its early competition it was first packaged as a file system appliance ; this made it more predictable than a software product and simpler to manage than a virtual tape library system . former ceo frank slootman published a book about his experiences in 2011 . 3 products and services edit the first data domain system the dd200 in 2004 had a 1.25 tb addressable capacity and was able to accept data at a rate of 40 mb sec . because its implementation put most of the system stress on cpu ram rather than disk i o it was able to improve at the rate of intel technology . emc s current line of data domain systems have since significantly surpassed this capacity and speed dd2200 dd2500 dd4200 dd4500 dd7200 dd9500 logical capacity 40 860 tb 1.3 6.6 pb 1.8 9.4 pb 3.7 18.9 pb 2.8 14.2 pb 5.7 28.5 pm 4.2 21.4 pb 8.5 42.8 pb 8.6 43.2 pb 17.2 86.4 pb usable capacity up to 17.2 tb up to 133 tb up to 189 tb up to 378 tb up to 285 tb up to 570 tb up to 428 tb up to 856 tb up to 864 tb up to 1.7 pb speed 3.8 tb hr 5.6 tb hr 10.6 tb hr 10.6 tb hr 12.6 tb hr 27.7 tb hr speed with dd boost 4.7 tb hr 13.4 tb hr 25.6 tb hr 25.6 tb hr 28.3 tb hr 58.7 tb hr with dd extended retention 4 acquisition by emc edit in june 2009 emc corporation announced their intention to acquire data domain corp for 2.4 b outbidding netapp s previous offer . 5 in july the two companies reached definitive agreement regarding the acquisition . since then data domain systems have been a product line brand within the emc core technologies portfolio . according to idc emc in 2014 captured 62.3 % share of the market for purpose built backup devices worldwide . the majority of this share was from data domain product revenue . 6 since acquiring data domain emc has integrated the platform with its data protection suite software and begun offering expanded software enhancements . according to a 2013 idc analysis data domain reduced loss of user productivity from backup restore and retrieval operations by 81 % and the researchers state that consolidating backup and archive data on a data domain system can have a dramatic impact on overall costs and operations . 7 references edit data domain an emc company . data domain . the entrepreneur questionnaire brian biles co founder of data domain frank slootman 2011 . tape sucks inside data domain a silicon valley growth story . together editing . asin b004xmxyx6 . isbn 9780615484068 . data domain system specifications . emc.com emc tops netapp s bid for data domain . 1 june 2009 . new york times online . worldwide purpose built backup appliance pbba market revenue breaks the 1 billion mark in the fourth quarter according to idc idc market share press release the roi of consolidating backup and archive data idc white paper external links edit kai li brian biles v t e emc corporation corporate directors joseph m. tucci products celerra clariion data domain documentum greenplum isilon lenovoemc mozy networker recoverpoint rsa security scaleio symmetrix vce vmware vplex retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title data domain corporation & oldid 672726309 categories computer companies of the united statescomputer storage companiessoftware companies based in californiaemc corporationinformation technology companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 july 2015 at 13 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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