RSSMany technologies promise to help us get a handle on storage, but data deduplication delivers-if it's done right. Network Computing's latest Tech Center delivers news, opinion and exclusive research reports on all aspects of data dedupe and WAN replication technology: Best practices, emerging trends, and new products and strategies.
News and Analysis
The Importance of Storage Virtualization
With IT budgets relatively static and data on the rise, storage virtualization isn’t just an option, according to one expert: It’s a necessity.
Zetta.net Cloud Backup & Recovery Service Refresh Offers 10X Better Performance
Zetta.net has announced a new version of its cloud-based online backup and data recovery DataProtect service. Version 3.0 now gives users the ability to protect SQL and Windows System State files. It will also soon offer the ability to protect Microsoft Exchange files, as well as continue to provide support for unstructured data files, VMWare and data restore to dissimilar hardware. Other new features in this release include the ability to support the Macintosh platform, as well as the Windows and multiple Linux platforms that were already supported, and data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster using features such as a local metadata cache, deduplication and advanced network data compression.
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Blogs
The Promise of LTFS
April 05, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
A bit more than a year ago the folks behind the LTO tape format standards, primarily IBM, with some contributions from HP and Quantum, added the Linear Tape File System to LTO's feature list. While some niche markets, primarily the media and entertainment business, have adopted LTFS, it won't live up to it's promise without support from archiving and eDiscovery vendors.
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A Rose May Be A Rose But Dedupe Is Not Necessarily Dedupe
March 22, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Today just about every vendor in the storage market has data deduplication as a feature in one or more of their products. While those of us that work with multiple deduplication products on a regular basis know there are big differences between the various technologies that vendors call data deduplication many users don’t know how to pick the deduplication solution that will best fit their needs.
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Nimbus Sets The Stage For Mainstream Enterprise SSD
February 13, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Solid-state array pioneer Nimbus Data's new E-Class array system is a sign that solid-state storage is moving from the high-performance fringe to the mainstream of the enterprise data center. Most first-generation, all-solid-state arrays, including Nimbus Data's own S-class, were best suited to targeted applications where high performance with single points of failure was acceptable. The new asset class, like most midrange disk arrays, has a dual-controller design to satisfy my enterprise reliability requirements.
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HP Storage Tech Day
January 31, 2012 09:45 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Last week I joined a dozen or so fellow bloggers and storage industry gadflies for a storage field day at HP's Fort Collins, Colo., facility. Much like the more ecumenical Gestalt IT Tech Field Days run by our own Stephen Foskett, HP Tech Days let vendors show off their shiny new products while the street-wise delegates asked tough questions and took no marketing speak for an answer.
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Dell Moves Ahead Fluidly in Storage
January 20, 2012 12:32 PM
Posted by David Hill
The IT industry is always adapting to new trends, from client-server and the PC revolution of the '80s and '90s to cloud computing and big data today. These trends inspire successful new vendor entrants, but they can also be problematic for established IT vendors. Over time, some leaders don't adapt and die (see Digital Equipment Corporation), while others swoon and survive in a reduced state by being acquired by larger saviors (see Sun Microsystems).
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Dell Compellent: Third-Quarter Report Card
December 12, 2011 09:47 AM
Posted by Frank Berry
In February, Dell acquired Compellent Technologies, a pioneer in virtualized storage. Are Dell customers better off? And are Dell shareholders getting their money's worth? Here are my third-quarter grades for the acquisition.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
