Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 15th, 2009
StorageMojo recently wrote a blog post discussing the results of a study by twinstrata comparing the costs and availability of Google apps and Microsoft Office/Exchange. The study showed that the Google apps were cheaper than MS Office/Exchange for a 20 person firm and the options were similar for a ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
CA recently announced the addition of deduplication to ARCserve. Every time an ISV releases deduplication technology, I get inundated with questions about hardware (e.g. appliance-based) vs software (e.g. software-only where separate hardware is required) deduplication. In this post, I will discuss the difference between these two models when ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
As I have posted before, IBM/Diligent requires Fibre Channel drives due to the highly I/O intensive nature of their deduplication algorithm. I recently came across a situation that provides an interesting lesson and an important data point for anyone considering IBM/Diligent technology.
A customer was backing up about 25 TB ...
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