Our data is so deduped that no two bits are alike!

EVERYBODY’S DOING IT (or letting you do it) One of the more interesting bits to come out of recent news is EMC jumping on the primary storage dedupe bandwagon. Since HDS and NetApp were already doing so, HP has a network based solution, and IBM  got NetApp’s solution for free since they resell NetApp as their NAS line and also has some functionality built into TSM, that rounds out the crowd of usual suspects. All supporting dedupe of primary data. Backup software has offered compression and dedupe forever, originally to keep the number...

F5 ARX and Data Domain - Reduced Expense, Streamlined Storage

We get the opportunity to interview people on occasion, and when we signed a partnership with Data Domain, I became intrigued. The two technologies definitely could be complimentary, but I wanted to understand the how/why of our partnership. Rick Gillett, VP of Data Systems Architecture took some time to chat with me and provide some slides that illustrate how the two technologies work together via this partnership and what the cost implications could be - based on real-world deployments of ARX with Data Domain. It had some serious surprises for me, that's for certain, I'm hoping it does for you...