Archive for September, 2010
In my previous blog, I identified three potential inhibitors to the adoption of deduplication on primary storage: performance, cost and scalability. Sure enough, the early adopters I've spoken with have all run into these issues. They are all looking forward to having Albireo-enabled solutions hit the market. Last week I discussed how storage systems that implement Permabit's Albireo can avoid traditional performance penalties, but what about o...
Recently I've been thinking about the value of primary storage deduplication for structured data environments. Enterprise databases have been the target for data optimization techniques for some time. All of the major DB vendors have had integrated compression in their products for the last couple of years, with some even going so far as to introduce LOB-level deduplication capabilities. At the same time, both backup vendors and backup storage ap...
Last week I talked about deduplication and its advantages for VMware environments. One question I heard from a reader, "if the savings are as great as you're saying, why isn't deduplication in VMware environments everywhere today?" And on the surface, I think the answer is simple, the key challenge to VMware deduplication is performance. IT organizations have come to understand how deduplication saves on storage costs, but they are genera...
Deduplication (data optimization) is a hot topic these days because its promise to reduce storage consumption and its associated costs is compelling to today's high data growth businesses. Impact on IT budgets, CAPEX and OPEX as a result of applying dedupe in primary and/or secondary tiers of storage can be substantial!
Lost in all the hype is the fact that there are as many flavors of dedupe as Ben & Jerry's has flavors of ice cream! The...
