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Announcing EMC DataDomain DD Boost for Enterprise Applications

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EMC has announced availability of DD Boost for Enterprise Applications.

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What is this then?

New ways of protecting data?

Something new to learn, again?

DD Boost for Enterprise Applications consists of two parts:

  • Modules for using EMC DataDomain DD Boost together with native data protection functionality from:
    • SAP HANA
    • SAP with Oracle (BR*Tools)
    • Oracle (RMAN)
    • Microsoft SQL
    • IBM DB2
  • EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) for monitoring and reporting on the various sources.

The modules allows application administrators (DBAs) to work with their own interfaces and workflows, yet still move data to protection storage in an efficient manner.

This means that instead of having to install third party backup software and giving another team the control over scheduling and workflow, the DBAs now control, when and if they protect their data.

In some applications they even stay in control of moving this data offsite, simply specifying that the DataDomain target should perform what is known as a Managed File Replication to one (or more) DataDomain system(s). Recovery of the data can take place from any of these systems.

For some of the systems, replication can be controlled by writing to different folders in the DataDomain system, if they write to one that is enabled for DataDomain mtree replication, the data is moved offsite as soon as the backup is done, write to one where it isn’t and data stays onsite.

The whole point of developing this functionality is that in many organisations, there is a rift opening up between what application owners demand and require and what the IT operations department can deliver. Eventually, you see everyone rolling their own solutions and creating the dreaded silos that breed cost, complexity and poor interoperability.

DD Boost for Enterprise Applications addresses one of these rift creating scenarios, namely the classic problem that DBA’s does not want someone else to interfere with their often very complex environments, in this case through backup and recovery via a backup application.

The “classic” way, dump and sweep or backup agents:

Classic backup with agents


EMC began addressing this with DD Boost for Oracle RMAN which allowed Oracle DBA’s to continue using their own RMAN scripts, schedulers and so on.

They could write directly to highly resilient data protection storage in an efficient manner.DD Boost for RMAN

‘The success has been great with this, thousands of EMC customers has adopted it and carved out complexity and cost while doing so.

For the rest, it was still dump and sweep or backup agents.

Now, the same opportunity comes to administrators of SAP, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2.

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Nothing new to learn for the backup admins, minute long deployment and automatic monitoring for the data protection teams. That’s what this announcement means!