I’m Louis Imershein, Director of Product Management at Permabit Technology Corporation. When I joined Permabit over 5 years ago, we were a company focused on storage solutions for compliance and governance of information. Right around that time, we began to understand that the typical enterprise storage growth rates of 50-100% per year were not sustainable with current archive technology. Permabit embarked on a new course expanding be...
In my earlier blog, I mentioned Dedupe 2.0 as the next generation of deduplication beyond backup. Dedupe 1.0 is the backup use case of deduplication which many vendors deploy today. It seems however, that some vendors are trying to claim their dedupe solutions as Dedupe 2.0, when in fact they’re just tweaks to Dedupe 1.0 implementations. For example, a recent white paper and now a few blog posts by Nexsan are doing exactly that. What they des...
As Wayne highlighted in his recent blog post, dedupe is going way beyond backup. 2010 will be the year, we predict, when dedupe comes of age. As this technology has now become broadly accepted, users are starting to ask the question of whether it will ever be viable for anything other than backup. In the recently published 2010 Storage Trends by Rich Castagna at SearchStorage.com, which was conducted in December 2009, some interesting things wer...
