Bye, bye EDL/DL3D 1500/3000, it was nice knowing you

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The email below appeared in my inbox yesterday.  The EDL/DL3D 1500/3000 has officially been discontinued.  It was obvious from the moment EMC purchased Data Domain that the Quantum stuff was dead, but it took time for EMC to finally admit this.  The strongest statement came in Frank Slootman's TechTarget interview.  Clearly ...

Restore Performance

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Scott from EMC posted about the EMC DL3D 4000 today. He was responding to some questions by W. Curtis Preston regarding the product and GA. I am not going to go into detail about the post, but wanted to clarify one point. He says: Restores from this [undeduplicated ...

SEPATON Performance — Again

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Scott from EMC has challenged SEPATON’s advertised performance for backup, deduplication, and restore. As industry analyst, W. Curtis Preston so succinctly put it, “do you really want to start a ‘we have better performance than you’ blog war with one of the products that has clustered dedupe?” However, I wanted ...

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 on this ...

Rube Goldberg reborn as a VTL

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I have fond memories from my childhood of Rube Goldberg contraptions. I was always amazed at how he would creatively use common elements to implement these crazy machines. By using every day items for complicated contraptions, he made even the simplest process look incredibly complex and difficult. But ...

DL3D Discussion

Friday, August 1st, 2008

There is an interesting discussion on The Backup Blog related to deduplication and EMC’s DL3D. The conversation relates to performance and the two participants are W. Curtis Preston the author of the Mr. Backup Blog and the The Backup Blog's author, Scott from EMC.  Here are some excerpts that ...