Posts Tagged ‘VMware’

Virtualization and Deduplication

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Deduplication and the Enterprise Database

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...

VMware Performance and Deduplication

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...

Interoperability is OK, but Optimization is Optimal

We are at VMworld this week and it should be interesting as VMware continues to press their aggressive growth agenda. We are here because our OEM data optimization solution, Albireo dedupes VMDK and VDI environments like nobodies' business (up to 100X) and this is a great week to talk with OEM customers and vendors who are serious about storage efficiency. We have two announcements at the show. The first is around Permabit extending our VMware A...

The Case for VMware and Deduplication

We've all watched over the past several years as VMware virtualization has revolutionized IT, instigating the most significant consolidation of computer hardware assets in history. What you may not know is that VMware deployments offer one of the most attractive use cases for data optimization in a primary storage environment. A great example of this comes from our friends over at NetApp®. Shortly after releasing their deduplication feature, Net...