Archive | May, 2010

Protecting Compressed Data and Reducing Costs

by Carter George on May 25, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

As @storagebod (Martin Glassborow) noted today in a blog post, the issue of protecting deduplicated data is an important one for any business. Deduplication and other data reduction technologies offer the opportunity for increased data protection at a reduced cost. When you hit a threshold of 50% or greater overall data reduction, it lowers the [...]

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Expanding Role Of Data Deduplication

by Mike Davis on May 17, 2010 in Uncategorized

I came across this article on InformationWeek “Expanding Role of Data Deduplication,” and I thought I would share it. InformationWeek created a survey of 437 technology professionals and picked their brains regarding the technology of dedupe and how they might be using it within their infrastructures. The report is available free for a limited time [...]

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To Pluto and Beyond!

To Pluto and Beyond!

by Carter George on May 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

Thanks to EMC’s sponsorship, the effort started by the UC Berkeley School of information in 2003 to quantify the global trends in creation of digital data continues under IDC’s able supervision. The latest report, “The Digital Universe Decade,” is hot off the press, and breaks the banks on crazy metaphors for how much data is produced and [...]

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