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In a recent Network Computing article, 'Dedupe All The Way,' Howard Marks examines extending deduplication beyond the initial use case of backup. I think Howard did a great job of presenting his perspective and laid out some of the initial challenges. Fortunately, these challenges are being overcome quickly! 1114...
On Tuesday Oct 19, Permabit released performance data that highlights break-through performance rates for primary storage deduplication - 77GB/s! By delivering this type of performance, Permabit Albireo delivers the performance needed to deliver primary storage deduplication at line speed.In the deduplication nascent period, it could only be used in backup solutions due to speed, latency and scalability limitations that were the result of initial...
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...
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...