Data Domain debuts new dedupe system July 20, 2009
-- Data Domain continues to roll out new products in the wake of a bidding war and the impending acquisition of the company by EMC.
NetApp bows out, EMC to acquire Data Domain July 8, 2009
-- NetApp has terminated its merger agreement with data deduplication appliance vendor Data Domain after declining to raise its offer in the wake of a blockbuster $2.1 billion bid by EMC.
Symantec to expand deduplication July 7, 2009
-- Symantec today officially revealed its plans to build native data deduplication into its NetBackup and Backup Exec software by early 2010, as the company attempts to wrest mindshare from appliance-based deduplication vendors by bringing the technology closer to information sources.