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Category: Deduplication

Four Prerequisites of an Enterprise Cloud-based Backup Provider

December 9, 2011

Using the “cloud” for backup is the primary context in which people think about the cloud when asked about it. Yet if forced to list what features an “enterprise cloud-based backup provider” offers, it is questionable if one could do so. So as DCIG prepares to release its inaugural Buyer’s Guide in 2012 on Enterprise Cloud-based Backup products, one of its first tasks was to define what constitutes an “enterprise cloud-based backup” offering.

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Don’t hit the button: Hoarders love deduplication and compression.

September 23, 2011

Over the years big data has crept into the everyday life of systems administrators. Attempts to solve the big data problem in both block and file storage emerged as data management software. While data management software struggled to get a footing, deduplication and compression took off stunting data management software’s growth.
Deduplication and compression technologies have well known capabilities in both the storage and information disciplines. However, they differ in a significant way. These technologies do not ease the burden of information management.

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DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

September 8, 2011

Today DCIG and SMB Research are pleased to jointly announce the availability of a new, comprehensive DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 30 deduplication appliances with starting prices that range from $20,000 to $100,000. This Buyer’s Guide gives small, medium and large enterprises the resources they need to assist them in making what is becoming a critical buying decision: selecting a disk-based solution that deduplicates their backup data.

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Calculating VDI’s Impact on Storage

May 25, 2011

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is well on its way to becoming the next big trend in virtualization in enterprises but before that can happen, a viable back end storage solution must emerge that can cost-effectively deliver VDI’s conflicting capacity, cost and performance demands. One specific configuration that end-users find particularly appealing are those storage solutions that deliver both deduplication and SSDs.

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Five Guidelines as to the Best Ways to Implement Deduplication

April 1, 2011

Over the last few months I have been talking to a number of end-users about their implementations of deduplication technology. In the process of doing so, they have provided me with valuable insight into how they are implementing deduplication when using disk-based targets that deduplicate data. Based upon that feedback it appears that most are adhering to the following five guidelines as they implement deduplication in their environments.

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Time to Refresh the DCIG 2010 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide

March 30, 2011

About a year ago DCIG decided to do something completely different in the analyst space: a side-by-side independent comparison of products in a particular market segment in the form of a Buyer’s Guide. The end result of that was the DCIG 2010 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. But believe it or not, a year has already passed since that was produced and it is now time to update and refresh that Buyer’s Guide for a number of reasons.

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Deduplication is Just the Icing on the Backup to Disk Cake

December 2, 2010

Over the last few months I have been doing a series of interviews with end users and then preparing more formalized DCIG case studies based upon these interviews. In these particular instances, all of the end users have been EMC Data Domain users but what I have found particularly intriguing in my conversations with these end users is that while “data deduplicaton” initially grabs their attention, after EMC Data Domain gets implemented, it simply becomes the icing on the backup to disk cake.

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NetApp Serves up an Early Storage Feast While Seeking to Help Keep Enterprises Lean

November 12, 2010

More storage capacity and faster performance in new storage systems is anything but new these days. If anything, in this day and age enterprise organizations want to feast on these features PLUS options that keep them lean by enabling them to more efficiently use these resources, requiring less time to manage them and quickly integrating them with their emerging virtual environments. It is these features and more that NetApp served up to enterprises earlier this week.

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