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Archive for July, 2009

Deduplication and the chasm

With the Data Domain battle over, you may think that dedupe has crossed the Chasm made famous by Geoffrey Moore. It has in terms of awareness, but dedupe is still in its infancy in terms of wide scale adoption. Estimates are dedupe has penetrated less than one-third of the backup market and a lower percentage of secondary and primary storage. I think dedupe adoption will accelerate over the next 18 months (or the equivalent of one product releas...

And the winner is…DDUP, NTAP or EMC?

Finally, there's a winner in the battle for DDUP! It's EMC, right? Well, maybe, but maybe not. Of the three participants in the battle for DDUP, I would rank the winners in this order: #1 Data Domain management and shareholders. Outstanding execution, superb market timing and an unmitigated homerun. #2 NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven and shareholders. He made a rational decision and dodged a dilutive bullet. #3 EMC salesforce. You have a category ...