EMC Takes On NetApp For Data Domain’s Affections
EMC (NYSE:EMC) started a gunfight in the storage world today by offering an astonishing $1.8 billion for data deduplication sweetheart, Data Domain (NASDAQ:DDUP). This $30 per share offer one-ups rival...
View ArticleLiving on a prayer
Much of what we do in Storage Management can be considered living on a prayer; this is not just a result of the parlous state of the storage management tools that we use but also due to the complex...
View ArticleData Dedupe comes to ZFS
It’s official… Data deduplication has been added to ZFS (read the link if you’re new to data deduplication). Hats off to Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore who did a ton of the work in addition to Mark...
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Considering Ocarina Networks Optimized Data For Virtual Environments
Ocarina Networks presented to us during the Day 2 morning session of the GestaltIT Tech Field Day. Their presentation was a deep dive into storage compression and optimization. If you read my Ideas...
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EMC Mixes Avamar Into Iomega ix12-300r
Wandering the EMC World show floor was very revealing. Along with EMC’s new VPLEX, Chris Mellor and I spotted the unannounced SDRAM-based ZeusRAM SSD from STEC. While getting some hands-on time with...
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CommVault Simpana 9 Takes Backup To A New Level
CommVault introduces an updated version of their all-encompassing Simpana suite CommVault is one of those enterprise IT companies that likes to go their own way. A spin-out of AT&T’s famed Bell...
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See W. Curtis Preston’s Backup Central Live!
W. Curtis Preston launched his own series of Backup Central Live! seminars for 2011 Last week, after the Exec Event in Palo Alto, I joined my friend W. Curtis Preston for his first Backup Central...
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Fixed Block vs Variable Block Deduplication – A Quick Primer
Deduplication technology is quickly becoming the new hotness in the IT industry. Previously, deduplication was delegated to secondary storage tiers as the controller could not always keep up with the...
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Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8
Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is...
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The Brave New World of NVMe: The On-Premise IT Roundtable
The roundtable discusses how NVMe is impacting the storage industry. Is this just an iteration on what we’ve already seen with flash, or does it represent a sea change that will fundamentally change...
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