Explosive data growth is driving IT managers to look for new ways to reduce the cost, complexity, and space requirements of their storage infrastructure. This ESG Lab report examines an innovative high speed data compression appliance from IBM. Hands-on testing is used to demonstrate non-disruptive deployment, loss-less capacity savings, real-time performance, and non-stop fault tolerance.
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[...] My Links Page Real-time compression of primary data? You’ve got to be kidding. Terri McClure | Monday November 16, 2009 | 0 comments | Filed under: Uncategorized Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxWe’ve all heard about the capacity savings that can be achieved with deduplication for backups and other secondary storage requirements. Some of those solutions do compression on top of deduplication to magnify the savings. But dedupe and compression take a lot of CPU horsepower and slow things down. The slow down can be managed for backups, but it seems impossible that real-time compression can work quick enough to meet the performance requirements of primary storage applications. I was truly surprised when ESG Lab found that Storwize compression not only squishes primary NAS capacity up to 91%, in many cases it actually improves performance as the number of disk operations are reduced in real-time. To learn more, check out this ESG Lab Validation report. [...]