Data Reduction Software
Chris Mellor at the Channel Register posted an article suggesting that Symantec is delivering its NetBackup PureDisk on an appliance. This got me thinking about the different delivery models vendors choose and what buyers prefer. Does it matter if deduplication is delivered in software or a hardware ...
When Paul Revere raced through the villages of Massachusetts yelling “The Red Coats are Coming,” I bet you a lot more people would have listened if there were two British soldiers chasing him. In other words, if Paul Revere had tangible proof or some “examples,” his word ...
The deal continues a trend in which the big storage vendors are clearly moving towards the reduction of primary storage, said Brian Babineau, senior consulting analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group ESG.
via eChannelLine USA - IBM buys data-compression vendor Storwize.
Data deduplication, data reduction, capacity optimization ... call it what you will, but the end game is to optimize data transfer and storage. The impact on backup/secondary storage has been significant—both for the vendors with the technology and those IT organizations that have deployed it. While the excitement ...
When the news broke that NetApp was abandoning future development of its NearStore virtual tape library (VTL) solution, there was much speculation in the industry that VTL had run its course. While the popularity of file-interface disk targets—especially those with deduplication capabilities—has gained, VTLs appear to have waned. ...
A large number of organizations have deployed disk-to-disk backup technologies to improve the speed and reliability of their backup and disaster recovery operations. A growing number of these organizations look to data deduplication to enhance retention periods and reduce the cost of storage for backups and disaster recovery. This ESG ...
Seamless tape integration with deduplication is critical because, as industry analyst Enterprise Strategy Group points out, an estimated 62% of data protection customers use disk-to-disk-to-tape.
via eChannelLine USA - ChannelBIZ: Easing deduplication fear factors for customers.
Permabit’s field-proven data deduplication engine is now available as a software library and software development kit (SDK) that provides unified data deduplication advisory services. This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the Permabit Albireo SDK with a focus on ease of integration into existing storage ...
Yesterday, Permabit released its Albireo data optimization software–a deduplication solution designed to be embedded into primary storage systems. Right now, a majority of primary storage systems do not have dedupe capabilities and, because of lengthy product cycles, it is hard to determine when they will. Now, hold that ...
While much of the hype around dedupe has been focused on data deduplication for secondary disk storage, the technology is rapidly evolving and being applied at earlier points in the data path—upstream from backup storage systems. Several backup software vendors, including EMC Avamar, have been differentiating their ...
