“Storage Efficiency” has become a big topic over the past 12 months. There are a number of new technologies that have come out in the last few years that are helping to deal with storage growth. We all know that data is the root of the decisions that drive business today. The more data you have, hopefully, the better decisions you can make to drive your business to success. The question is, “what is… Read more »
Shopzilla - IBM Real-time Compression is Transparent
Shopzilla has been a customer of the IBM Real-time Compression technology for over 2 years. Here they describe the benefits of the technology.
Real-time Compression "Meets Minimum"
IBM's Ed Walsh, Director of Storage Efficiency sits down with Steve Duplessie, Founder of ESG to talk about how IBM Real-time Compression sets the bar for doing storage optimization in NAS. At the end of the day, if you can do compression in real time, without sacrificing performance and the transparency of the implementation, then why wouldn't you - given the savings you can get over traditional compression.
We all know compression is not… Read more »
Trident Micro Has Success with IBM Real-time Compression
As with any new technology there is a hurdle to get over before putting it into production, but once in, it can add a TON of value.
Trident Micro mentioned on runningDATA with Steve and Dave
Linked In Storage Discussion on Storage Efficiency
Great conversation on Linked In about deduplication and compression for storage efficiency in the Data Storage Professionals Group. Help the storage community answer this question:
Does anyone has any experience in NAS de-duplication at filesystem level, like NetApps. Does it really work? I concerns/limitations… Read more »