The new IDC report that came out in May stated that the "...amount of information in the digital universe would grow by a factor of 44 and the number of containers or files would grow by a factor of 67 from 2009 to 2020, the number of IT professionals in the world will only grow by a factor of 1.4". There can't be a more clear indication that it is time to get your storage… Read more »

I am not sure how many of you have seen the ABC show 'V' but it looks like they have it looks like they have two things in common with Storwize.

First, if you are unfamiliar with the show V - the description from their website is as follows:

The Visitors spread their message quickly and clearly: They come in peace, bearing gifts of medical miracles and technological breakthroughs far beyond our wildest imaginations.

Very… Read more »

During the past three to four months the storage industry has seen a spike in the number of reports, white papers and news articles surrounding the evolution of primary storage technology, capacity optimization (it is 2010’s hottest technology). The reason this technology is getting a lot of ‘air play’ these days is due to the fact that this technology is so critical to help control the growth and costs of storage. In 2010 the… Read more »

Rather than leave a lengthy comment on Tom Cook’s blog post from Friday Compression and Dedupe: Business Value and Data Safety (and from a marketing perspective, Friday’s are bad days to post blogs – especially in the summer) – I thought I would respond here (this may get lengthy as Tom made a number of points which I need comment on).

The first thing I do want to say is that when doing technical… Read more »

There was an interesting announcement today regarding Permabit who is now providing primary storage optimization through OEMs and having their solution embedded into the storage system. This further drives home the point of where capacity optimization should live. I do have a couple of questions however:

What is the performance like? I see phrases such as “High Performance Data Optimization Software” but don’t see any performance metrics – such as ‘no performance degradation’… Read more »