By Lee Johns

Do you love Sushi?  I certainly have come to.  Great taste, healthy - what could be better?  It seems everywhere I turn today there are new Sushi restaurants springing up.  Sushi is it!  It is one of the old adages of marketing that if Sushi had been marketed as "Cold Dead Fish", it would not have been as successful. 

Now to the topic of this blog post.  The new HP StorageWorks X1000 and X3000 Network Storage Systems - our unified storage products announced this week feature a capability called single instancing.  These products provide an easy way to deploy unified file and block services to new and existing SAN environments and the single instancing feature eliminates copies of files on the system and can reduce the space consumed by up to 35%.  Now I am not an expert but that seems to me to be deduplication.  I understand that there are different types of deduplication.  There are different types of sushi too.  Apparently someone at Microsoft decided to use single instancing as the term for file deduplication. Whoever it was, they likely are not a fan of Sushi.

The new X1000 and X3000 HP StorageWorks are unified storage systems that combine file and application storage and feature file deduplication that can save up to 35% of space.  There - I've said it.  .  .

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