Here they are. The Top 5 most viewed blog entries of 2013 regardless of the year that they were written. Notable about these five as well as all of the blog entries in this year’s Top 10 is the increased attention readers gave to the topics of data center management, data management and eDiscovery. It might well indicate that organizations are preparing to move past the mechanics of simply acquiring new hardware and software and begin better managing their data and optimizing their infrastructure.
#5- Deciphering Application Metadata is Data Deduplication’s Next Frontier. Jerome Wendt and James Koopman. The attention this blog entry started garnering interest in 2012 earning an “honorable mention” last year as one of last year’s most read blog entries. That momentum obviously carried over into 2013 with this #5 showing.
This blog entry explores how backup software inserts its own metadata into backup streams and how it is then then responsibility of the deduplication algorithm on the target backup device to decipher that metadata so data can be better deduplicated. At the time this blog entry was written, NEC had already taken steps to introduce this level of awareness into its HYDRAstor platform to optimize data deduplication in backup streams. This and other steps NEC took over the last few years obviously paid off. The NEC HYDRAstor earned the top spot in the recently published DCIG 2013 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide (link.)
#4 – Maturing Deduplicating Backup Appliances Still Offer Plenty of Features for Organizations to Evaluate Charley McMaster. The most read blog entry of 2013 written in 2013 was the only one to make the Top 10 list of most read blog entries regardless of the year in which the blog entry was written. In this blog entry, DCIG Senior Analyst, Charley McMaster, looks at the six (6) general areas that organizations specifically need to compare and contrast when selecting a deduplicating backup appliance, which include: encryption; public cloud support, scale-up versus scale-out architectures; inline versus post-process deduplication; licensing and appliance management software.
#3 – Electronic Data Discovery and Archiving Alert: Microsoft Bids for Fast Search and Transfer Initially published in January 2008, this blog entry somewhat came out of the blue to earn the #3 spot as one of the most read blog entries in 2013. At the time, this blog entry was written in response to Microsoft’s acquisition of Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) and examined some of the technology overlap that existing between FAST and Yahoo. Part of what may have attributed to the sudden surge of interest in this blog entry is Microsoft’s announcement in August 2012 that it planned to stop support for FAST.
#2 – Prerequisites for Introducing All-in-One Computing into Enterprise IT. Jerome Wendt. This blog entry continued its strong showing. After earning the #1 spot as the most viewed blog entry on DCIG’s site in 2012, it fell but one spot to come in #2 in 2013. In this blog entry, I examine the growing trend toward organizations introducing all-in-one computing solutions into their environments and what factors they should consider before taking that step.
#1 – iPAD, Flipboard and NOW Amazon kindle fire are Key Devices for DCIG.com readers. This year we have a brand new #1 blog entry on the DCIG site. However when one considers the impact that mobile devices have had on businesses since their introduction and the fact that this blog entry has in its title words such as “iPad,” “Flipboard,” and “Amazon Kindle,” I guess it is no surprise that more readers than ever happened to find DCIG’s website in their quest for information about mobile devices. DCIG in particular finds it benefits from this trend as by the end of 2011 we found that as much as 66% of those who come to our website to read our content use mobile devices to access it.
Top 5 Most Read Blog Entries of 2013 Regardless of the Year Written
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