In a recent blog post by Carol Silwa, Dave Russell from Gartner gives us his perspective on the status of current techniques for reducing primary storage.  I have huge respect for Dave, and I think he does some fine work.  In fact, Storwize is even a client of Gartner.  But I must say that in this case, some clarification is in order.  Allow me to elaborate:

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Last week Mike Davis from Ocarina Networks published a blog post "Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?" It was a good piece and from what I understand, and I don't know Mike, but he will be taking over blogging as Sunshine has moved on to greener pastures and I wish her the best. The reason for this piece is… Read more »

You can compress:

But none of those save you the kind of money 'real-time' compression can save you.

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Check out different mediums of storage throughout the years and the capacities they held. Maybe not as far back as punch cards, but since tape (especially for backups) trying to stuff more data in a smaller foot print has been around for a long time. Hope you enjoy.

Anything that upsets IT process is a big deal. It is important, as IT investigates new technologies for the data center, that to truly add value and provide a true ROI, the new technology must not impact all of the existing processes that are currently in place.

I have said it before and I am sure I will say it again, "The hardest thing to change in IT is not technology, it is process."

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