Archive for the ‘Deduplication’ Category
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
NetApp finally entered the world of deduplication in data protection. While they have supported a flavor of the technology in their filers since May 2007, they have never launched the technology for their VTL. Why? Because their VTL does not use any of the core filer IP. ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I have recently been thinking about the real benefits of deduplication. Although the technology is all about capacity, when you analyze the cost and benefits in the real world, the thing that jumps out at you is performance.
Performance is the key driver in sizing and assessing the number of ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
HIFN recently announced a card that accelerates hash-based deduplication. For those unfamiliar with HIFN, they provide infrastructure components that accelerate CPU intensive processes such as compression, encryption and now deduplication. The products are primarily embedded inside appliances, and you may be using one of their products today.
The interesting ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
I was recently attending a show and enjoyed speaking with a variety of end users with different levels of interest and knowledge. One of the things that I found was that attendees were obsessed with the question of inline vs post process vs concurrent process deduplication. Literally, people ...
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