http://www.aboutrestore.com/2010/03/31/deduplication-ratios-and-their-impact-on-dr-cost-savings/ Blogging about backup, recovery and marketing in the storage industry. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aboutrestore.com/2010/03/31/deduplication-ratios-and-their-impact-on-dr-cost-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-5303 Ip-toolBox.com » Dedupe Ratios Do Matter Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:20:08 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=1026#comment-5303 [...] I’d like to thank Curtis Preston (Blog Entry 1, Blog Entry 2) and Sepaton’s Jay Livens (Blog Entry) for adding to the discussion in their blog [...] [...] I’d like to thank Curtis Preston (Blog Entry 1, Blog Entry 2) and Sepaton’s Jay Livens (Blog Entry) for adding to the discussion in their blog [...]

]]> http://www.aboutrestore.com/2010/03/31/deduplication-ratios-and-their-impact-on-dr-cost-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-5237 Tweets that mention About Restore » Blog Archive » Deduplication ratios and their impact on DR cost savings -- Topsy.com Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:25:08 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=1026#comment-5237 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jay Livens. Jay Livens said: Blog post adding to @wcpreston's deduplication debate: http://bit.ly/bzub5s - Deduplication ratios and their impact on DR cost savings [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jay Livens. Jay Livens said: Blog post adding to @wcpreston's deduplication debate: http://bit.ly/bzub5s – Deduplication ratios and their impact on DR cost savings [...]

]]> http://www.aboutrestore.com/2010/03/31/deduplication-ratios-and-their-impact-on-dr-cost-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-5235 Peter Quirk Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:17:00 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=1026#comment-5235 There's also a computational power trade-off for the dedupe ratio, though it's much harder to characterize than storage or bandwidth trade-offs. It just takes more compute power to wring the redundancy out the data using a combination of matching, differencing and compression technologies. We're all familiar with the compression trade-offs in Winzip or 7zip. Similar considerations apply in dedupe algorithms. There’s also a computational power trade-off for the dedupe ratio, though it’s much harder to characterize than storage or bandwidth trade-offs. It just takes more compute power to wring the redundancy out the data using a combination of matching, differencing and compression technologies. We’re all familiar with the compression trade-offs in Winzip or 7zip. Similar considerations apply in dedupe algorithms.

]]> http://www.aboutrestore.com/2010/03/31/deduplication-ratios-and-their-impact-on-dr-cost-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-5234 W. Curtis Preston Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:35:41 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=1026#comment-5234 I didn't even think about the bandwidth differences. That's huge! I didn’t even think about the bandwidth differences. That’s huge!

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