Yesterday The Storage Alchemist at Storwize posted a complaint about Tom's discussion of compression and deduplication. We certainly aren't savaging compression technologies -- I think perhaps it's clearer to consider our points not so much as a criticism of compression, but as a list of concerns regarding bump-in-the-wire optimization appliances. We absolutely agree with Steve the Alchemist that data compression and data deduplication are two te...
Many people are saying our Albireo embedded OEM deduplication changes the storage landscape. I am gratified by the response to Albireo by analysts (and here) the press (and here), by recent OEM adoption. Albireo is becoming a standard in data optimization because the product provides maximum business value without data safety compromise. Albireo also works well in combination with compression and over the past several months we've often been aske...
In Jered's latest blog post, he highlights the announcement we made this week of AlbireoTM High Performance Data Optimization Software. You may have noticed the industry buzz this has created. Here's what some of the analysts have had to say.
What I would like to highlight is the other star that was 'born' with this announcement -- that is Jered himself!
Move over Pink, here comes Jered Floyd - our very own rock star. Ever since Jered conceiv...
In my last post, I gave the history of Albireo and I mentioned that we came to recognize seven key attributes that are absolute requirements for an integrated primary deduplication solution.
First, Albireo supports block, file and also new unified or converged storage platforms. By addressing all types of primary storage, we avoid leaving huge amounts of users' data unoptimized. Additionally, next generation storage platforms put block and f...
In his post, Tom wrote about the top three things we heard from customers about deduplication. Given the wildfire success of deduplication for backup storage, everyone now wants deduplication to optimize primary storage, but nobody is willing to sacrifice performance, functionality, or safety. This is absolutely sensible - deduplication should be a valuable, cost-saving feature and not a tradeoff against other core functionality. Nobody has be...
I grew up in the Detroit area, and I often go back to automobiles when I think about buying behaviors. Some time ago I determined that engine technologies had advanced enough so that I could make fuel efficiency and clean emissions my primary criteria for new vehicle purchases. The first efficient/clean vehicle I bought was a clean diesel for one of my daughters. The car gets better than 50 miles to the gallon at highway speeds; it is peppy ar...
