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Pillar's Choice Reflects Storage De-Dupe Trend: Page 2 of 3

The Pillar exec is not the first to climb onto the fence. As one analyst, who asked not to be named, recently noted: "Both in-line and post-processing approaches have advantages and disadvantages. A well done post-process de-dupe is just as effective as an ingress de-dupe. A well done ingress de-dupe can be just as fast as a post process de-dupe."

At the moment, Pillar is farthest down the de-duplication road with FalconStor, inking a reseller partnership for the vendor's Single Instance Repository (SIR) -- compared to its "interoperability" deals with Data Domain, Diligent, and Symantec. Still, Maness says there is "good potential" for those agreements to develop into full reseller deals.

Meanwhile, the Pillar deal nonetheless spells good news for FalconStor, which recently received a slap in the face when its de-duplication was bypassed by longstanding partner Sun in favor of Diligent's ProtecTIER suite.

Clearly, Pillar is looking to avoid a de-duplication "religious war," which may be the right move from the vendor's side of things. Storage managers are still wrestling with de-duplication, and it's not clear which tack if any will prevail in specific markets.

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