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Tom Cook, Permabit CEO, and George Crump had a great discussion on the state of the storage industry and the adoption of data optimization technology in Flash, SMB, Enterprises and the Cloud. Tom also looks ahead at the impact of Albireo in Software-Defined Storage and across the IT infrastructure....
Last week I attended a Gartner event focusing on the top 10 IT trends for the year. As always, Gartner is informative and forward looking. I came away from the event with some interesting perspectives and something to think about. So from a time investment a few hours well spent! Today there are four IT trends converging that are changing the IT paradigm. Each on their own have significant impact. However, when combined together, they are ...
Yesterday I was at the Lazard Capital Markets Solid State Storage Day and participated in a panel discussion, “Flash Systems” moderated by Ed Parker - IT Systems Analyst at Lazard with Rado Danilak - Skyera, Max Riggsbee – Whiptail and Stephan Merman – Flexstar. Also presenting at the conference were companies: SanDisk, STEC, Seagate, Marvell, Silicon Motion, NetApp, LSI and Micron. It is great to see many friends and customers in one...
Permabit recently announced two applications for Albireo VDO, COMPRESS and REPLICA. The addition of compression to the existing VDO capabilities of deduplication and thin provisioning is a natural next step for VDO since deduplication and compression are symbiotic. Deduplication addresses duplicate data chunks that span across multiple files while compression addresses duplicate data strings that are within a file. It seems like the right way...
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: ...
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...
VMware announced the acquisition of storage hypervisor software maker Virsto, this week. This is a really profound move by VMware that will have widespread impact on storage efficiency. Don't confuse Virsto with caching companies, they have implemented VM-centric thin provisioning and storage virtualization on the client. It can be used with any vendor's block storage! What does this mean for VMFS? Not sure, but it is clear that with Virsto th...
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...
I read a great piece by William Blair's, equity analyst, Jason Ader yesterday, in which he called into question EMC's 2013 growth prospects. He cited the following causes: Structural Changes - flash arrays are eating VMAX for lunch. We are seeing this first hand at Permabit. We are helping a broad range of independent flash array makers with data efficiency and yes, they are replacing VMAX - and because $1 of flash replaces something like...
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 ...