Dell announced last night the acquisition of Ocarina Networks. As Dell gains traction in the primary space with EqualLogic, it’s critical they deliver solutions to compete with the likes of EMC and NetApp. Deduplication is one such technology that’s become a check box to being a credible vendor in a competitive space. If you don’t have it, buyers will move on. Selection will be based on how elegantly the problem is solved, intersected with the cost to solve it; efficiency, performance AND cost.
What was once a taboo conversation by hardware vendors for fear of sales erosion, now deduplicating data on the primary copy is here to stay. Primary storage vendors are responsible – dare I say, obligated – to deduplicate on the front end. NetApp, for example, has proven to the market that primary deduplication with VMware is a significant need. Dell is now on a path to developing a story that addresses this market in an effort to drive more EqualLogic footprint.
But what about making copies? Copies of data for replication, backup, archive and compliance generate orders of magnitude more space than what’s consumed by the original copy. Adding deduplication to all of these copies, across all storage tiers through to tape, will slash storage related costs. The economic impact of deduplication is profound.
Dell announced last night the acquisition of Ocarina Networks. As Dell gains traction in the primary space with EqualLogic, it’s critical they deliver solutions to compete with the likes of EMC and NetApp. Deduplication is one such technology that’s become a check box to being a credible vendor in a competitive space. If you don’t have it, buyers will move on. Selection will be based on how elegantly the problem is solved, intersected with the cost to solve it; efficiency, performance AND cost.
What was once a taboo conversation by hardware vendors for fear of sales erosion, now deduplicating data on the primary copy is here to stay. Primary storage vendors are responsible – dare I say, obligated – to deduplicate on the front end. NetApp, for example, has proven to the market that primary deduplication with VMware is a significant need. Dell is now on a path to developing a story that addresses this market in an effort to drive more EqualLogic footprint.
But what about making copies? Copies of data for replication, backup, archive and compliance generate orders of magnitude more space than what’s consumed by the original copy. Adding deduplication to all of these copies, across all storage tiers through to tape, will slash storage related costs. The economic impact of deduplication is profound.