Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I was disappointed to see this announcement from TechTarget. As one would expect, their actions are in response to the current economic situation. I can understand the cutbacks in headcount, but I am disappointed with the cancellation of the print version of Storage Magazine.
Storage is one of the best ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
IBM/Diligent TS7650G uses a pattern matching approach to deduplication, which is different from the hash-based solutions used by many vendors or the ContentAwareTM approach pioneered by SEPATON.
Diligent’s technology requires Fibre Channel (FC) drives for the best performance because pattern matching is highly I/O intensive and needs the additional I/O from ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
This article on Byteandswitch.com highlights enhancements to FalconStor's SIR deduplication platform, but I have to wonder whether anyone cares. FalconStor was a big player in providing VTL software to OEMs; but their deduplication software has been largely ignored.
FalconStor had their heyday in VTL. They aggressively pursued OEM deals ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The outlook on the economy continues to be less than stellar. The National Bureau of Economic Research formally declared that we are in a recession. Thanks guys for stating the obvious! Tough times create difficulties for everyone. We have already seen vendors including NetApp, Quantum and ...
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