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Floods in Thailand – Accelerates adoption of SSDs and dedupe

Flooding in Thailand is driving up prices and constricting availability of HDDs.  A Gartner Note, “How to Cope with a Worldwide Hard-Disk Shortage in 2012” (G00227631) by Valdis Filks and Stanley Zaffos, December 6 2011, predicts:"HDD costs will increase by up to 20% in 2012".  Their number one recommendation to cope with the shortage is: "Accelerate the deployment of storage efficiency improving technologies and procedures." Data growth...

Santa “wishes” from IT

Yes it’s that time of year when all the IT professionals are sending their wish lists to the North Pole!  It’s been a tough year for IT given the constant data growth and the never ending budget pressures. These folks are under siege!  IT needs some help and it’s not going to come from the IT vendor reps who are looking for bigger commission checks and new Land Rovers in this year’s Christmas stockings. So what IT toy is on the top of I...

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...