In acquiring Diligent, IBM adds game-changing de-duplication technology to its data protection arsenal. De-duplication makes backup and recovery faster, more efficient, and, yes, more green. This has significant value for organizations in their pursuit to protect and make readily available massively growing volumes of data.
Pillar Data Systems has spent a great deal of time and money designing a storage architecture that can mesh with the specific needs of varying applications—and is now set to unveil the first proof points.
This ESG Lab report examines the ease of installation and deployment of direct and SAN attached systems running IBRIX Fusion scalable network-attached file system software. Scalable capacity, performance for a wide variety of workloads and high availability are also explored.
"The State of Continuous Data Protection" SearchStorage.com Australia 5/6/2008
"CDP is effective as a function, but it is not likely to replace other backup tools. It is really best as a feature in other backup products," says Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
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"HP Brings Storage, Servers Into One Rack" CIO 5/6/2008
Managing many terabytes of storage is far different from taking care of a few hundred gigabytes on a PC, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.