Archive | April, 2008

Less is More–Part 2

by Mike Davis on April 25, 2008 in Featured, File Systems, Storage

As we all know, the internet is where there is huge storage growth, multi-petabyte scale, and a need to stay very close to the commodity price point on storage costs. There are two common threads across all of the “less is more” file systems that have been popping up to handle all this growth.  First, they [...]

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Less is More

by Mike Davis on April 24, 2008 in Analyst, Featured, File Systems, Storage

Less is more … or is it? Part One I recently returned from Storage Networking World in Orlando. As everyone knows, the conference is mainly a place for storage vendors to meet each other, tout their wares, and nose around in their competitors’ booths pretending to be potential customers. There are some good sessions, however, [...]

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Why Storage Is So Inefficient: The Huge Gulf Between Applications Development and Storage Platforms

by Mike Davis on April 14, 2008 in Featured

Most of what is driving storage growth is files created by applications. The big applications are email, Microsoft Office and office files like PDFs, and rich media files like photos, music, and videos.  There’s a lot of inefficiency in how all the data in these application files get stored. If you stop and think about [...]

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INTRODUCING STORAGE OPTIMIZATION BLOG

INTRODUCING STORAGE OPTIMIZATION BLOG

by Mike Davis on April 7, 2008 in Featured

Helping Address a New Set of Storage Challenges In recent years, a handful of storage companies have built sizable and successful businesses by driving innovation in data reduction for areas such as back-up data and WAN data movement. Data Domain pioneered de-duplication, which has become the de facto standard for reducing the amount of disk [...]

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