Boston Medical Center Deploys Data Domain for Cost-Effective Email Archive

SANTA CLARA, CA, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication
storage systems, today announced that Boston Medical Center has purchased
Data Domain systems to cost-effectively protect its Microsoft Exchange
email archive assets and meet state and federal regulatory objectives.
The hospital's ITS department chose to implement Data Domain DD690
systems over EMC Centera based on the Data Domain solution's easy
integration with Mimosa's NearPoint content archiving solution, its
efficient storage reduction capabilities and Boston Medical Center's
positive experience with Data Domain as an enterprise-class backup and
disaster recovery (DR) solution.

The primary teaching affiliate for Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston Medical Center is the largest Level 1 trauma center in New England
with 626-licensed beds. The hospital's mission is to provide "Exceptional
Care Without Exception." Boston Medical Center excels in providing
consistently accessible health services to its patients. The ITS
infrastructure and systems that support these services play an important
role in ensuring that hospital staff can work as effectively and
efficiently as possible without worrying about the systems. It is
essential that data is fully protected and recoverable to meet internal
SLAs, state, federal and HIPAA regulatory requirements.

The ITS department is responsible for two large data centers -- an offsite
location serves as its primary data center while the hospital itself
serves as a co-location and DR site. ITS manages more than 400 TB of
medical, clinical, email, database, HR and finance data across more than
100 applications, and data growth continues at 40-50 percent per year.
According to Brad Blake, director of IT for Boston Medical Center, before
the organization could tackle its next generation archive requirements, it
first needed to standardize procedures and maximize cost-efficiencies for
backup, shorten its recovery time objectives and reduce DR administration.

"As a non-profit, our goal is to always maintain or lower operating costs.
Yet relying on our existing disk library and tape storage infrastructure
was not cost-effective, it couldn't keep pace and we were grappling with
support issues across multiple vendors," explained Blake. "We were
spending upwards of $70,000 a year on tape media and administration. With
support contract renewals also looming, I realized that adding onto this
existing infrastructure was not moving us forward strategically."

An ROI analysis demonstrated that Boston Medical Center could recoup the
cost of their initial Data Domain purchase within three years, and that
they would save between $300K and $430K compared to a swap-out of their
existing disk libraries. An important server virtualization initiative
provided the back-drop for the ITS department to purchase two Data Domain
DD690 systems, each with six ES20 expansion shelves, in late 2007.
Currently, these Data Domain systems are storing the equivalent of more
than 350 TB of backups on 3.5 TB of disk, achieving a 99-percent
compression rate. The ITS team is also cross-replicating between each data
center, which provides efficient and reliable DR.

Secure in the value of Data Domain as a backup solution, the hospital has
done away with unreliable tape and expensive conventional disk. Blake and
the ITS department began the search for a new storage platform to manage
its Microsoft Exchange archive. The choices were quickly narrowed to Data
Domain and EMC Centera.

With the Mimosa NearPoint solution chosen to manage the archives, the
storage system needed to integrate seamlessly into this environment as
well as provide ongoing value to the organization. Based on the positive
validation of Data Domain deduplication storage already in production, and
its demonstrated ability to work with the NearPoint solution, Boston
Medical Center purchased two additional DD690 systems along with optional
10 GbE NICs to allow efficient data movement, fast recoveries and minimize
disk resources utilized for compliant archive.

"Boston Medical Center's ITS organization is meeting its business
objectives with Data Domain and we're pleased to expand on this positive
relationship," said Beth White, vice president of marketing for Data
Domain. "As Data Domain broadens its technology to solve enterprise
storage issues beyond backup and DR, we are very excited to work with
leading organizations like Boston Medical Center."

"Thus far, our three-year Data Domain ROI model has proved itself out in
large part due to the reductions in operating and administration costs
we've already experienced. Data Domain has streamlined our backup, DR and
now our archive processes. We're seeing massive data compression results
and we've minimized our data center footprint and power/cooling costs.
Most importantly, my team and I are able to work much more efficiently and
effectively managing our data storage needs," concluded Blake.

For more information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems,
please visit www.datadomain.com.

ABOUT DATA DOMAIN

Data Domain(R) is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems.
Thousands of companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to
reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers
the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data
protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data
Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are
compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products.
To find out more about Data Domain, visit www.datadomain.com. Data Domain
is headquartered at 2421 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054 and
can be contacted by phone at 1-866-933-3873 or by e-mail at
sales@datadomain.com.

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Terry Frechette
Lois Paul & Partners
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tfrechette@lpp.com

Sean Lamb
Data Domain, Inc.
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press@datadomain.com

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