HOPKINTON, Mass., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC ) today announced that Mid-Continent Group, a subsidiary of the Great American Insurance Group, has used EMC ® Data Domain ® deduplication storage systems to completely automate and streamline backup and disaster recovery processes for its IBM i environment. By leveraging native Data Domain support for IBM i operating environments, Mid-Continent was able to achieve a broad scope of cost savings and operational benefits, and manage their data growth without the need for tape.