I am a bit concerned about the price however. Spending $3,000/TB to get even 3:1 data reduction on storage that costs only $1,800/TB may not be worth the investment in today's market. Data center space and power savings are worth something, but I can get a Data Domain box for the same money
Of course, compared to the Backup Exec and Arcserve these companies are probably using now, Simpana will use a lot less disk to store the same data, or allow longer retention with the same disk.
Howard Marks is chief scientist at Networks Are Our Lives Inc., a Hoboken, N.J.-based consultancy where he's been beating storage network systems into submission and writing about it in computer magazines since 1987. He currently writes for InformationWeek, which is published by the same company as Byte and Switch.
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