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 »

Today I read a very well written blog by The SANMan. The only issue is, you can't comment on his blog. This is the first technology blog I have seen like this. So, I will have to post my thought here.

In his post "NetApp Takes the "Primary" Lead for Data Reduction" - which seems more like theory and a commercial for NTAP than reality (see comments @… Read more »

Or should I say, ‘Setting the Record Straight on Backing Up Optimized Data’? Carter discusses on this blog they myriad of ways to perform backups on optimized data. (His blog actually reads more like a white paper explaining how backup needs to be configured to work with his product.) One of the ways Carter describes to do backup is via NDMP and says “… is the most complicated.” The funny thing is that this is… Read more »