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 »Snowball VFX Keeps the Avalanche Under Control
What a great name, Snowball. And much like information can behave like a "snowball" turning into an "avalanche", Snowball VFX has been able to control the avalanche of data utilizing the IBM Real-time Compression technology. Here in this video customer case study, Yoni Cohen, Founder of Snowball talks about the value of Real-time Compression in his environment.
Additionally, we have captured from all of our Media & Entertainment customers what they think… Read more »
Top 10 Reasons Real-time Compression Provides Extraordinary Storage Efficiency
Over the past few weeks I have witnessed the proverbial mudslinging that takes place in the blogosphere when marketing feathers are ruffled. Most recently I was reading Rich Anderson of The StorageSavvy Blog. The article was "Compression better than Dedup? NetApp Confirms!"
I have to agree with Rich on many fronts. First, "When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail." Rich points out vendors have to sell "what's in the bag"… Read more »
Storwize - What is in a Name, Really?
Today IBM is making one of the most significant storage announcements in the last 10 years. (Steve Duplessie is quoted as saying “…last 20 years.” but announcing that they were basically getting out of the storage business in 2000 by selling their Mylex division was pretty significant.)
Today IBM has made it abundantly clear that they are back in the storage business. It makes a lot of sense actually. Servers have been commoditized to… Read more »
The Storage Network
With the impending name change to the "Storwize" product, the marketing folks at the old "Storwize" are at it again with their "viral video" campaign. Not sure how many of you have seen the movie or even the trailer to "The Social Network" that grossed $23M in the US brining it to #1 in the box office last week . Its a story of a guy that started in college with an idea and turned… Read more »