We are at VMworld this week and it should be interesting as VMware continues to press their aggressive growth agenda. We are here because our OEM data optimization solution, Albireo dedupes VMDK and VDI environments like nobodies' business (up to 100X) and this is a great week to talk with OEM customers and vendors who are serious about storage efficiency.
We have two announcements at the show. The first is around Permabit extending our VMware A...
A few comments have been made regarding latency, most recently in a Search Storage piece from Dave Raffo, when comparisons were being made between compression and deduplication applied to primary storage. The concern expressed is that deduplication may be inflicting latency in the write or read process for primary storage. That may have been an astute observation a year ago but today its simply just not a valid observation!
At issue is the pe...
We've all watched over the past several years as VMware virtualization has revolutionized IT, instigating the most significant consolidation of computer hardware assets in history. What you may not know is that VMware deployments offer one of the most attractive use cases for data optimization in a primary storage environment. A great example of this comes from our friends over at NetApp®. Shortly after releasing their deduplication feature, Net...
In my last two posts, I have emphasized key Albireo features. NOT in the Read Path and Flexibility in deployment. These really do set Albireo apart from the early days of deduplication and other similar approaches being discussed today. However, I believe the most important issue with data storage is and always will be - how safe is my data? After all your business depends on your data and you need to be confident data is available and can be ac...
As we talked to potential OEMs for our Albireo Data Optimization offering several key requirements kept emerging. One was 'don't impact performance', followed by 'don't impact my existing feature set (because I've invested $$$ in it)' and finally 'please make your deduplication easy and flexible to deploy.' As we developed Albireo, we kept these in mind and have succeeded in addressing each!
'Don't impact performance' I addressed in my blog ...
In Mike's Blog a couple of weeks ago, 'Get Out of My Way', he accurately portrayed our Albireo offering as 'not in the read path'. In primary storage implementations, it's critical to ensure the most efficient access to data. 'Out of the read path' has been one of our key messages that bear repeating because it's so significant. Albireo is embedded in the storage vendors stack so we have been extremely careful not to impact their operations. As...
Usually summer is a time for reflection and sun tanning at the beach. From a business perspective things tend to slow down a bit while each of us takes a second breath and spend some quality time with our families away from the business side of our lives. There is usually not much industry news few 'big deals' occur that were not already in play. Technology shift announcements are typically saved for September when everyone is back, so the...
