Greetings, everyone. I've been back from my trip for a while; I apologize for the lack of posts! I'll get some pictures up soon, although the ones in the official gallery are surely better. I'll post some of the favorite things I saw later.
Over at his blog, Scott Waterhouse (from EMC) takes to task backup vendors that claim outrageous dedupe ratios. Now, this is just a wee bit entertaining given that EMC Avamar has been claiming deduplicati...
Over at eWeek, Chris Preimesberger has what looks like a brutal article on archive systems. On further inspection, though, it looks more like a damning (but nameless) indictment of EMC's Centera. In that context, he's spot on, but I wish he didn't try to drag down all of archiving with one rotten apple!
Let's look through the problems Chris identifies.
1: Scalability. CAS (content-addressable storage) archives have a hard limit on the number...
