Data Protection in the “New World”
Its time I get back to writing about more than just topics that surround what IBM are doing in the [...]
Tag: "Dedupe"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Key Competitive Advantages to IBM Real-time Compression
It still baffles me when there is so much information available for people to learn about any topic and it [...]
Top 10 Reasons Real-time Compression Provides Extraordinary Storage Efficiency
Over the past few weeks I have witnessed the proverbial mudslinging that takes place in the blogosphere when marketing feathers [...]
A Blueprint for Primary Storage Optimization
During the past three to four months the storage industry has seen a spike in the number of reports, white [...]
Gravity Applies to Everyone!
There was an interesting announcement today regarding Permabit who is now providing primary storage optimization through OEMs and having their [...]
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 [...]
Deduplication – Older than You Think
Forty years ago the internet was born. Since that time, people have been trying to stuff more data in smaller spaces - This was the beginning of deduplication.
Betamax Redux
I often joke w/ customers that when my friends were growing up they would dream of being a professional baseball [...]
Deduplication for Flash / SSD & Tiering
As a part of being a storage evangelist, I spend a lot of time educating sales as well as customers [...]
Efficiency vs. Optimization
“Storage Efficiency” has become a big topic over the past 12 months. There are a number of new technologies that [...]
Real-time Compression “Meets Minimum”
IBM's Ed Walsh, Director of Storage Efficiency sits down with Steve Duplessie, Founder of ESG to talk about how IBM [...]
Linked In Storage Discussion on Storage Efficiency
Great conversation on Linked In about deduplication and compression for storage efficiency in the Data Storage Professionals Group. Help the [...]
The Storage Network
With the impending name change to the "Storwize" product, the marketing folks at the old "Storwize" are at it again [...]
Marketing, FUD and Doing What You Do Best
Rather than leave a lengthy comment on Tom Cook’s blog post from Friday Compression and Dedupe: Business Value and Data [...]
A Blog with no Comments?
Today I read a very well written blog by The SANMan. The only issue is, you can't comment on his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
