Last week I met my new, all time favorite “value added” reseller. Computacenter, based out of London is a partner to Storwize. More importantly, they actually do put the words “value added” back into the reseller business. The main reason, Computacenter is willing to pay their customers, real cash, if they don’t live up to the ROI numbers that are agreed upon by between them and their customer for a given solution. Today I am… Read more »
The Myths about Compression and Data Deduplication
How many of you have heard that compression and deduplication just don’t belong together? Like oil and water. I know from experience, when I worked for EMC, the Avamar sales reps and the Data Domain sales reps would tell their customers that the best thing to do if they had encrypted or compressed primary data, that they uncompress it to get the savings in their backups that deduplication promises.
This is wrong on a number… Read more »
Storwize – Making the Seemingly Simple, Elegant
In my career I have done a lot of traveling. Well at least I thought I had. I am just returning from a trip to Israel where I met with the Storwize engineering team and CTO (Yoni Amit) as well as some of the greatest minds in the storage industry. I have to say, Steve Duplessie’s blog was right on when it comes to the technology capabilities that exist in that country. As most… Read more »
Welcome to The Storage Alchemist
Greetings! I hope everyone was able to find the new URL and welcome to my first original post at 'The Storage Alchemist'. First, I have to say, finding a good name was very hard. Though it was my wife that came up with this name, I really think it fits. It seems like every 3 to 5 years I end up at a new place with new challenges and new lessons to be learned that… Read more »
How Much Backup Capacity Does Deduplication Really Save?
There is a lot of discussion around data deduplication for backup these days. (I wish I could deduplicate all the turkey I ate last week.) In fact, Gartner claims that “…by 2012, deduplication will be applied to 75% of backups.” And when asked “Why?” the response was “…deduplication is too compelling to ignore.” But I say “prove it”. So I put together some backup capacity numbers for storing data on tape (non-compressed and compressed) versus… Read more »