EMC is updating its Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy data storage lines.

The company said that the update would bring support for additional storage platforms along with additional performance and scalability features.

Among the updates will be four new Data Domain systems. The revamped software will sport up to 10 times the scalability and four times the performance of previous models. EMC claims that the new systems will also reduce customer cost per gigabyte by 38 percent, helping to reduce costs brought on by the rise in virtualised architectures and expanding data centres. The company claims that the new systems will be able to handle up to 540 sources of data.

EMC president of Backup Recovery Systems Guy Churchward said: “Accidental architectures are an outgrowth of users addressing individual data protection challenges reactively as they arise, and applying costly silo’d or ‘one size fits all’ products and solutions that become difficult to manage, optimise and pay for.

“The products we’ve announced today pave the way for our customers to consolidate their data protection strategy and infrastructure, and enable them to proactively prepare for the data protection challenges that accompany transformational IT initiatives.”

In addition to the new Data Domain systems, EMC is expanding its compatibility with outside software vendors. The new systems will support SAP’s HANA and Oracle’s Exadata storage lines as well as OpenText, IBM and Dell storage platforms.

The company is also adding new features to its Avamar platform to allow VM Instant Access and introducing Active Directory compatibility to the Mozy cloud backup platform. The company said that the new tools will be available in the third quarter of the year. The software will also be offered through the VSPEX platform.