Over the last few weeks, there have been various announcements in the storage world that continue to echo the point Tom made in his February blog post titled "The Squeeze is On."
We've seen both EMC and IBM make announcements that they will be adding SSD technology to their storage arrays. Permabit announced yesterday the continued partnership and certification with BlueArc and their Titan solution. And I'm sure there will be many more in the ...
So, it looks like Data Domain has seen the light at the end of the tunnel. A tunnel that was beginning to close in on them. How do you grow a one technology, point solution storage company into a billion dollar storage company? You don't! You sell it - for $1.5 billion!
Not a bad exit for the team over at DDUP. Congrats to the management team and their shareholders! The bigger question really falls to NTAP. You did what?
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In a short few years deduplication technologies have become commonplace, and in not too much longer will become a requirement for any new storage purchase. When everyone offers deduplication, are they all the same? Definitely not! Most of the deduplication technologies out there only perform in very specific use cases like backup, and cannot handle general purpose data storage.
The biggest dichotomy in deduplication is dedupe for backup, be ...
