Okay, so the dust it taking more time to settle on the whole EMC / DDUP / NTAP saga, so given this may go on for a while, let's try to shed some light on 'why' EMC would want this technology.

It's simple really, and it's analogues to the auto industry and hence the reference to the title of this piece. Rather than drone on about what 'Who killed the electric car?' I'll just tell… Read more »

Well, now that the dust has settled and all of the predictions have been made regarding NetApp's acquisition of Data Domain, it is really time to talk about two topics that have a great deal to do with data deduplication. The first is backup and the second is capacity optimization (which leverages data deduplication technology).

Backup

"Everyone hates backup." "Tape is unreliable." "Tape is dead." "Archive first, then backup." "Do more with less." "It's not… Read more »

In a day and age where people are trying to understand the value of social media, no one can argue that when it is used to save a life, there doesn't need to be a business plan.

Over the past 48 hours I have seen Bloggers, Tweeters and Facebook'ers all spread the word to help save a life. Nick Glasgow, a 28 year old in California was recently diagnosed with Leukemia and is in desperate… Read more »

EMC's announcement on accelerating your backup efficiency hits some very important concepts to help users make significant progress in solving some key backup challenges.

color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A lot has been said over the last 18 months regarding an inflection point, where the growth of data is out pacing the capabilities of traditional backup technologies. This has driven the 'one size does not fit all' belief when it comes to backup technology for… Read more »

EMC World kicked off this morning first with a presentation from yours truly on Data Deduplication 2.0 - Comprehensive Capacity Optimization. We discussed how data deduplication 1.0 is morphing into all areas of EMC's storage ecosystem in order to optimize capacity everywhere. I talked about data deduplication as well as single instancing and compression are technology components that will help EMC achieve this goal.

Next Joe Tucci spoke in his keynote about how data deduplication… Read more »