Is Deduplication Ready for Prime Time?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 25. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
Deduplication is here for backup, but it is not yet ready for prime time in primary storage applications
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 [...]
greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 15. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve long hollered that ZFS is a real storage revolution in the making, but recognized that it still had a way to go before replacing UFS, HFS+, and most volume managers. Well, a little Rhode Island company called greenBytes comes out of stealth today to announce that they’re doing just that – taking the solid [...]
Jargon Watch: EMC 3D = Data Deduplication
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 21. May, 2008 | View Comments
Watching the announcements coming out of EMC World today, one bit of jargon stuck out at me: The EMC bloggers are starting to refer to “data deduplication” as “3D”. I had never heard this terminology before yesterday, but the EMCers are all using it, so it must be a popular term inside that company. So [...]
