Archive for November, 2008

10 Things I Am Thankful For

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to reflect on things that you are thankful for and so I figured that this would be a great topic for my one blog post this week. 1. That the Somali pirates have not hijacked SEPATON although Bloomberg suggests in a humorous press release that Citibank ...

Choosing a Data Protection Solution in a Down Economy

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I hate to turn on the TV these days because it is full of bad news. There always seems to be some pundit talking about troubles in the housing market, credit markets, automotive industry, consumer confidence and so many other areas. It does not take a rocket scientist ...

SEPATON S2100-ES2 Performance

Friday, November 14th, 2008

The SEPATON S2100-ES2 was designed for speed. Our solution is based around the concept of a unified appliance which provides one GUI for managing and monitoring all embedded hardware. We also automate the disk provisioning and configuration to provide consistent scalability and performance. The result is an ...

Deduplication, Restore Performance and the A-Team

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I have posted in the past about the challenges of restoring data from a reverse referenced deduplication solution. In short, the impact can be substantial. You might wonder whether I am the only one pointing out this issue, and what the impact really is. An EMC blogger recently posted ...

The Fallacy of Faster Tape

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I often talk about disk-based backup and virtual tape libraries (VTL) and wanted to discuss physical tape. While VTLs are popular these days, tape is still in widespread use. LTO tape, the market share leader, continues to highlight increased density and performance. Do not be fooled with ...

Trials and Tribble-lations of Deduplication

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

One of my favorite episodes from Star Trek was “Trouble with Tribbles.” In the episode, Uhura adopted a creature called a tribble only to find that it immediately started to reproduce uncontrollably, resulting in an infestation in the Enterprise’s critical business err spaceship systems. You can read a ...