Deduplication Coming to Primary Storage
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
This is a follow-up to my story, De-Duplication Goes Mainstream
Although deduplication of storage is nothing new, with Data Domain and other making hay with the technique for years, it has never been ready for prime time – reduction of active primary storage applications like email and databases. Instead, deduplication has been relegated to second- or [...]
These computers are not junk!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Everything, Terabyte home on 21. Jun, 2007 | View Comments
Marc Farley challenged us storage geeks to wave our junk flags and reveal just how many computers we have. Well, I’m really not sure… Let’s see – in order of usefulness…
Networked:
Dell XPS M1210 laptop (killer!) with 120GB internal and 500 GB Western Digital My Book backup drive
TiVo Series 3 with 250 GB (yeah [...]
