The Dell PowerProtect DD9910 is the flagship model in the PowerProtect DD family — the evolution of the legendary Data Domain platform that defined the deduplication appliance market. For organisations running the largest backup environments — service providers, global banks, healthcare networks, and government agencies — the DD9910 delivers the throughput and capacity needed to protect petabyte-scale production environments within realistic backup windows.
The 65:1 deduplication ratio is the defining characteristic of the DD platform. Unlike backup solutions that simply compress data, DD's inline deduplication algorithm identifies and eliminates redundant data segments globally across all backups in the system. Full backups look like incrementals from a storage consumption perspective — daily full backups of the same data consume only the changed segments, not a full copy each time.
Cloud Tier integration is now a standard feature of the DD9910, allowing organisations to tier backup data older than a configurable policy (e.g., backups older than 30 days) automatically to cloud object storage. The deduplication efficiency is maintained in the cloud tier — data is not re-hydrated before being written to cloud. This allows organisations to replace tape-based long-term retention with cloud object storage at a lower total cost.