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Tales of cold dead fish

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...

Published 05-29-2009 1:46 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: deduplication, storage, unified storage

I've been personally impacted by lost tapes

Hi Folks, Yesterday I received a letter in the mail at home that started off: Dear Sir or Madam, We are writing to let you know that computer tapes containing some of your personal information were lost while being transported to an off-site storage facility...

Published 09-17-2008 5:55 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: tape, LTO Ultrium, deduplication, backup, Virtual Library System, virtual tape, disk-based backup, security, D2D Backup Systems, storage

Deduplication, online storage, and cannibals

By Warren Smith, StorageWorks Competitive Intelligence Manager "Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal." That's an amusing quote by Demetri Martin, an American comedian. But it could be the motto of NetApp. Last week, NetApp...

Published 08-11-2008 4:06 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: deduplication, NetApp, storage

Examples of Data Deduplication Ratios for File Serving, SQL and Exchange

By Jim Hankins If you remember back in my HP Deduplication - Part 1 post when we announced our new deduplication products back in June, I said that the deduplication ratio you can expect from a product can vary based on a number of factors. We now can...

Published 07-28-2008 8:46 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: deduplication, backup, Virtual Library System, virtual tape, disk-based backup, SMB, D2D Backup Systems

EMC: HP's Whac-A-Mole VTL (& HP Reponse Part 1)

I wanted to share a response I made on an EMC blog called, " The Backup Blog ." We will also be sharing a response for our VLS product as well. There was too much to respond to in one post! Stay tuned! __________________________________ As a...

Published 07-28-2008 4:55 PM by jasontreu

Filed under: deduplication, backup, EMC, SMB, D2D Backup Systems

Simply Business Protection for small and midsized IT environments

- by Brad Parks We’re all well aware that data protection equates to business protection and some of the recent posts on this blog go into detail on how HP is fundamentally changing the rules of the game with our deduplication technologies embedded in...

Published 07-03-2008 12:23 AM by brad.parks

Filed under: deduplication, backup, disk-based backup

Five ideas to reduce cost of managing and protecting data

Our own Patrick Eitenbichler recently discussed a list of five things customers should focus on to reduce the costs of managing and protecting data. The full article is in Processor Magazine and you can read it at this URL: http://tinyurl.com/593qrm Here's...

Published 07-02-2008 3:46 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: deduplication, backup, consolidation, thin provisioning

HP Announces Deduplication - Part 2

- By Jim Hankins As I stated in part 1, it's difficult to judge the merits of a disk-based backup or virtual tape products with deduplication capabilities based solely on the deduplication ratio that a particular vendor might be touting for its product...

Published 06-24-2008 3:01 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: deduplication, virtual tape

HP Announces Deduplication - Part 1

-By Jim Hankins Earlier today, HP announced new deduplication capabilities for customers who are considering deploying disk-based backup or virtual tape as part of their data protection processes. Deduplication is one of the most talked about new technologies...

Published 06-23-2008 6:11 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: deduplication, virtual tape, disk-based backup, storage

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