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Article: Quantum CEO on EMC buyout of Data Domain.
- Article from:
- Computer News Middle East
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software and Quantum Corp for the same type of single-instancing technology could be in jeopardy. Quantum resells both its tape libraries and dedupe software through EMC, sales that amount to less than 10% of its revenue.
EMC sells two virtual tape libraries -- the DL3D 3000 and DL4000 -- that use rebranded deduplication software from Quantum and FalconStor and a disk-based backup appliance -- the Disk Library 3D 1500 -- that uses Quantum's software. During the Data Domain acquisition process, EMC CEO Joe Tucci said the other deduplication ...