Comments on: Permabit Albireo: Empowering Unified Deduplication

By: bgarrett

bgarrett — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:44:53 +0000

Great point Larry. The report starts with a review of where dedupe has taken hold in the market for backup and archive and we point to the future using NetApp dedupe for primary storage as an example. We were blinded by NetApp’s dedupe wins with NFS and VMware and overlooked that fact that NetApp’s unified architecture extends the benefites of dedupe to block protocols as well.

This highlights a problem we have in the industry when we get hung up on a storage protocol instead of a storage solution. What matters here is that NetApp has supported deduplication for primary storage for nearly four years. Due to NetApp’s unified architecture, it doesn’t matter if the deduplicated primary storage is accessed via a file- or block-based protocol. I believe we captured this a bit better towards the end of the report when we stated:

…data deduplication is beginning to take hold in the primary storage market, with NetApp and Microsoft leading the way (Deduplication for FAS and Single Instance Store within Windows Storage Server, respectively). In ESG’s opinion, it’s simply a matter of time before data deduplication gains wide market acceptance in the nearline archive and online primary storage markets.

By: Larry Freeeman

Larry Freeeman — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:35:31 +0000

Correction to this report:

“ESG believes that it’s only a matter of time before policy-based deduplication support is added to primary block-based storage systems as well.”

NetApp has offered dedupe on its block-based SAN storage systems for nearly four years now. Any NetApp FAS system can operate concurrently as a NAS or SAN device, and both volumes and LUNs can be enabled for deduplication.

In addition, NetApp’s V-Series can dedupe 3rd party SAN storage arrays, for example a V-Series can front-end and dedupe data stored on EMC Clariions or Sym’s.

More info here: http://blogs.netapp.com/drdedupe/2010/05/netapp-luns-and-deduplication.html#tp

By: mIvanov

mIvanov — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:16:43 +0000

Due to overwhelming demand, we asked ESG Labs to post this Lab Report as is. Permabit has made many enhancements to the Albireo API and in performance since the lab tests were first conducted. We thought this was a good starting point – please contact us with questions and for up-to-date information at 617-252-9600, bd@perambit.com or visit http://www.permabit.com.

Mike Ivanov
VP, Marketing
Permabit Technology
mivanov@permabit.com