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 »

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 »

There has been a lot written about the airline industry and its ongoing challenges. Bankruptcies and mergers have been frequent topics on the business pages of the newspapers. Stranded passengers and jets sitting on runways for hours make are page news.

I travel a lot and have been doing so for 20 years. It's an interesting industry I have observed first hand, often times painfully. I would postulate, the air travel industry is one of… Read more »

The hardest thing to change inside IT is not technology, it is process! I say this because all too often there are technologies available that provide a far superior solution to a complex IT problem, however, this new technology may not fit into your existing business process. Need proof? Let's take data protection as an example. Did you know that VTLs (virtual tape libraries) and data deduplication technologies came out at the exact same point… Read more »

I have decided information today, is like a group of friends. If you look at my LinkedIn page or my Facebook page you see that I have over 600 connections and over 180 friends respectively. What does this really mean? Obviously don't stay in touch with all of these people. So why do we have these connections? I think it is because we believe that in the future, each one of these connections will offer… Read more »