A ‘Rock’ Star is Born
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 conceived of the idea of Albireo, he has been racking up more frequent flyer miles than Bono. We’ve been meeting with many of the industry’s biggest names to discuss Albireo over the last 6 months and that was before we even officially announced the product to the public!
Now that the cat is out of the bag, Jered has become even more popular. Our biggest challenge now is his schedule! Between analyst briefings, press interviews and partner meetings, Jered has become one popular guy. I frequently have to battle with Brett Hawkes, our VP of Business Development, on when I can get some free cycles to have him to talk to another analyst or press person wanting to find out more details about Albireo. You see, many have thought that Primary Data Optimization could not be done without having a performance impact, manipulating the data and risking its integrity, or losing features already built in to the storage systems. You can’t have your cake and it eat it too.
Contrary to what the self-proclaimed ‘Dr. Dedupe’ believes, we have delivered this cake and we’d be happy to share a piece with everyone! It is time for data deduplication for primary storage to become main stream and for dedupe to truly become ubiquitous.
Thanks Jered and I’ll have the tour shirts created soon!