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MEDIA ALERT

Data Domain Customers to Present at VMworld Las Vegas 2008

Two Sessions Highlight Best Practices for Multi-site Data Consolidation Implementation
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 23 2008 —— Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems, today announced customer presentations at the Storage Decisions New York 2008 conference at the Hilton New York. The first session features David Dunkers, Firm-wide Storage Manager and Network Manager at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, a global architectural design firm. Mr. Dunkers will discuss his firm’s phased approach to a multi-site data consolidation project leveraging Data Domain deduplication storage systems. Mr. Dunkers will also present at a user panel session which will be moderated by Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of The Taneja Group.

Session #1 Title: Phased Rollout of Data Deduplication Across Multi-site Data Protection Infrastructure

Data Domain Customer: David Dunkers Firm-wide Storage Manager and Network Manager for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, LLP

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, September 23, 12:30-1:45 pm ET, Gibson Suite

Session Description: David Dunkers is Firm-wide Storage Manager and Network Manager for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, a large internationally based architectural firm. His firm is presently engaged in a multi-continent rollout of Data Domain deduplication storage systems that includes data center sites in New York, Chicago, London, San Francisco and Washington, DC. After initially establishing local backups and individual replication between sites, the firm plans to consolidate its 50-60 TBs of worldwide backup data to their primary data center. In this case study-style presentation, David Dunkers will discuss his pre-existing data protection environment and his phased approach to the firm’s Data Domain system implementation. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

Session #2 Title: De-Dupe User Panel

Moderator: Arun Taneja, The Taneja Group

Data Domain Customer: David Dunkers, Firm-wide Storage Manager and Network Manager for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP

Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, September 24 from 10:15-11:15 am ET, Hilton New York

Data Domain Exhibiter Booth: 403

ABOUT DATA DOMAIN
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 2100 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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