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Fast and Effective Dedupe

I’ve noticed a few blog posts recently about speed of deduplication in the modern data center. I agree that speed is an important factor, but keep in mind that not all dedupe is created equal. That is to say, fast is good, but only if you are also effective. One of the tricky things has [...]

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The Year in Images

The Year in Images

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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Dedupe for Primary–Everyone’s Talkin’

It’s very interesting to write for a blog that is focused on a specific topic–in our case, dedupe for primary–and then suddenly see the whole world wake up to the reality of it all at once. There has been quite the pile-on in the storage blogosphere of late. So, what has been said so far? [...]

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HDS is Hopping

HDS has had an interesting run when it comes to its social media efforts. With Hu Yoshida, they’ve got a heavy hitter putting out blog posts with gravitas. This hasn’t stopped them from adding several more bloggers, including consultant Tony Asaro who offers a refreshing, semi-outsider’s point of view. As of last Friday, Miki Sandorfi, [...]

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Storage News and Views – June 25

It’s almost July 4, and I hope all of you are starting to stock up on hot dogs, buns, American flags and sparklers. And for all you Florida folks, enjoy setting your own fireworks. When I was a kid, we had an uncle who lived in Miami who brought them up to us every year–completely [...]

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Storage News and Views – June 17

Summer is almost here, and despite rumors of a recession, the malls are filling up with shoppers seeking bathing suits, sunblock, iPhones, and other de rigueur gear of the season. Here in storage land, the latest industry news continues to amaze, amuse and baffle. Here are a few headlines that caught our eyes: Data Domain [...]

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Storage News and Notes – May 29

This has been a very interesting week in the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere, and the hottest topic was, somewhat ironically, an announcement that seemed to fall flat. Wednesday, HDS brought out its High-Availability Manager for USP-V (quickly dubbed “HAM” by bloggers), and several bloggers called it underwhelming and confusing. Chris Evans, The Storage Architect – Enterprise Computing: [...]

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The Dedupe Wars

At Ocarina, we’re having a great deal of success these days with partnerships, and the buzz around this is being seen in the storage press and beyond. What has happened in part is that now that NetApp has made dedupe table stakes, we are the dance partner that many vendors are turning to, as we [...]

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NAB-bing some Announcements

This week, many of our crew are attending NAB Show, the annual mega-convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. Why do we need to be there? Well, more and more, the business of making shows and movies has become inextricably linked to the need to store immense files. To add to the [...]

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