“Big Enough” Data
Say the word “infrastructure” at Strata conference and you hear people start talking mostly about software. One of the biggest [...]
Tag: "Data Protection"
Fixed Input vs. Variable Input Compression
As a number of you know, I have been blogging about the merits of Real-time Compression. It may be of [...]
Disk Elasticity and Storage Efficiency
Storage is elastic. How do I know you ask? Yesterday I visited a customer who is using the Storwize product [...]
Setting the Record Straight on Backup
Or should I say, ‘Setting the Record Straight on Backing Up Optimized Data’? Carter discusses on this blog they myriad [...]
The Myths about Compression and Data Deduplication
How many of you have heard that compression and deduplication just don’t belong together? Like oil and water. I know [...]
Enterprise Data Protection at the Edge
What does that really mean? When I worked for Veritas, back in 1998 we acquired a company based out of [...]
The Side Effects of Backup on Server Virtualization
Server virtualization has changed the IT landscape dramatically. It has become a magic potion curing a number of ills in [...]
A Data Proteciton Reference Architecture – Part 3
The 'Fat Middle' In the 'fat middle' of the triangle, as I stated last week, there are a number of [...]
Storage Consolidation Keeps on Truckin’
So the storage sector starts off with a bang when it comes to M&A, driving more consolidation in the market [...]
The Storage Alchemist in Prague
Alright, landed safe in Prague and was picked up by one of my colleagues and whisked away to the IBM [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Use IBM for VM Deployments
After a full first day at VMworld, I started to think more about IBM and their technology solutions that [...]
Data Protection, Retention and Archive Starts with Data Value
It feels good to open up the blogging again to new topics, especially ones I am intimately familiar with. (But [...]
IBM Day 1 – It’s Official
Between time off with the family this summer and all the work required to get done between 'signing' a deal to be [...]
Compressed Thoughts – Compression and Deduplication
This video doesn't talk about the merits of one versus the other but how when compression (or capacity optimization is [...]
How Much Backup Capacity Does Deduplication Really Save?
There is a lot of discussion around data deduplication for backup these days. (I wish I could deduplicate all the [...]
Comprehensive Capacity Optimization – Deduplication 2.0
Technology is great isn't it? When someone thinks they have a new idea on the same old technology foundation they [...]
A Data Protection Reference Architecture – The Final Chapter
The Architecture This ‘architecture’ diagram, as you can see, is not a typical architecture diagram, but hopefully it can be [...]
A Data Protection Reference Architecture – Part 2
Archive The most fundamental part of developing a good data protection architecture starts at the base of the triangle with [...]
