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Archive | July, 2009

Happy Bastille Day

by Sunshine on July 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

It was exactly 220 years ago today, on July 14, 1789 that the citizens of Paris stormed the notorious Bastille prison, an event that touched off the French Revolution. Today might not mean much to most Americans. but in France–and in French communities around the world–this is a day of celebration. I find it interesting [...]

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The Petabyte Age Cometh

by Sunshine on July 13, 2009 in Storage

We’re not even the first storage blog to pick up on this–Storagezilla posted yesterday–but cloud provider Decho (formerly Mozy) has come up with a truly compelling graphic on the coming “Petabyte age” to invoke what the data growth we’re experiencing represents. Here are a few of its many eye-popping illustrative examples: Worldwide, data centers now [...]

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Dedupe for Online – What’s Next?

by Carter George on July 10, 2009 in Featured, Storage

In the wake of the high profile Data Domain acquisition battle, data deduplication is the technology du jour. This has led to wide-ranging discussions on the topic, one of which is the question of where deduplication is being applied. A recent Wikibon article, “Pitfalls of compressing online storage” notes that Data Domain represents only one [...]

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Storage News and Views, July 9

by Sunshine on July 9, 2009 in Storage

The biggest news of the week is of course the fact that EMC has bagged Data Domain, beating out rival NetApp with its superior bid of 2.1 billion, or $33.50 a share. The news itself broke yesterday, July 8, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that tech stocks rallied today as a result of [...]

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And the Waiting Continues…

by Sunshine on July 7, 2009 in Storage

EMC blogger Storagezilla has summed up the situation regarding the Data Domain acqui by linking to a YouTube video of opera diva Monserrat Caballe performing a duet with Queen’s Freddy Mercury. So, when will the woman of size vocalize melodically?

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EMC increases bid for DD – game over?

by Sunshine on July 6, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

The saga continues — almost to the point of absurdity. As Computerworld‘s Lucas Mearian is reporting, EMC has raised its bid for deduplication specialist Data Domain to $2.1 billion, or $33.50 a share. This well overshadows NetApp’s paltry $1.9B, $30/share bid and most observers are now predicting that NetApp must fold. Indeed, it’s hard to [...]

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The Future of NAS — Hint: Data Reduction is a Big Part of It

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, capacity optimization

If it isn’t already, then Stephen Foskett’s Enterprise Storage Strategies blog for Nirvanix should be on your reading list. Today he has an interesting take on some statistics that have emerged on the future of NAS, as collected by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Analyst Terri McClure has an excellent post on the results. Here [...]

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Babel Fish on the Way?

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in cloud

Warning: this post really has nothing to do with storage. It’s instead about something that sounds really cool, and hey, who can argue with that? Computerworld is comparing it to the universal translator in Star Trek. It might also be called a “babel fish-like” device. In any case, the latest invention is news to all [...]

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