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Posts Tagged ‘deduplication’

Maximizing Deduplication Results with Oracle Databases and RMAN

In my last post, I mentioned the results of the Permabit Labs six week study of dedupe’s effectiveness with Oracle RMAN backups. In this post I want to talk about the methodology used in this study in a bit more detail. The most important thing we learned in performing this study is that capacity savings are extremely dependent on how RMAN is used. To maximize deduplication efficiency when using RMAN, there are three things to keep in mind: ...

Deduplication and the Enterprise Database – the Backup Use Case

It’s been a while since I last wrote about Deduplication and the Enterprise Database. My previous posts focused on databases in the primary storage environment, but, of course, backup was really the first use case to reap the benefits of deduplication. For this discussion, we will focus on Oracle database environments (but keep in mind that this applies to other Database environments as well). Oracle backups are performed using the RMAN uti...

Data Optimization and Cloud Storage a Great Combination!

The promise of cloud storage is that it delivers users seamless “just in time” storage scalability to handle growth and enables them to quickly respond to peak loads delivering business agility. With data growth consistently in the 50% per year range enterprises are seriously evaluating the use of cloud storage and are taking the cloud storage step with increasing frequency.  The business impact of cloud storage is a compelling financial p...

Albireo Update

We made a few public announcements today, the first being with one of our newest OEM partners Cibecs. Cibecs is one of our first publicly announced partners in the data protection market segment. They and others will soon be in the DP market with dedupe that performs at scale and doesn’t require a platform on steroids.  Thanks for choosing us, Cibecs! Traction for Albireo continues to accelerate in enterprise storage, enterprise flash, SMB ...

A Sea Change in Big Data Deduplication

This week we welcomed Big Data storage company, SeaChange to our Albireo partner program. SeaChange adds deduplication SeaChange is a leader in media-centric cloud storage and will embed our Albireo Data Optimization Software into the SeaChange Universal MediaLibrary (UML), the only media storage that supports both real time play-to-air and high performance production. This announcement turned heads in the storage industry as a commonly held ...

Dedupe 2.0…Again?

Well, again we see that one of our deduplication market competitors is leveraging Permabit strategy and content. First it was Symantec with “Dedupe Everywhere” and this time it is HP using our concept of “Dedupe 2.0” in their recent announcements regarding StoreOnce.  Just to get some facts clear, we launched our Dedupe 2.0 campaign back in August 2009 when we introduced  www.dedupe2.com.  For us Dedupe 1.0 was all about backup.  Dedu...