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Primary Dedupe: The Next Big Thing in Storage

By Tony Asaro on Jun 29, 2011 | In Data Management | 2 feedbacks »

I have been pounding the drum on dedupe in primary storage for a very long time and I am surprised that the market hasn’t acted more quickly. This capability is even easier to quantify than snapshots and thin provisioning and yet it’s adoption has been… more »
Tags: dedupe, dell, ibm, netapp, nimble storage, ocarina, permabit, primary storage, snapshot, storwize, thin provisioning

The Future of Storage

By Tony Asaro on Oct 21, 2010 | In Data Management | 2 feedbacks »

After many years of meeting with IT professionals and storage vendors, presenting in seminars and trade shows, and conducting research, it’s pretty clear to me that storage is still very confusing for users. It’s not really the complexity of the technol… more »
Tags: 3par, cloud storage, compellent, data domain, dedupe, dell, emc, equallogic, ibm, iscsi, nas, netapp, san, storage

IT Analysis for 2010

By Tony Asaro on Jan 7, 2010 | In Data Management, Virtualization, Business Issues for IT, Storage, Storage Management | Send feedback »

We have all collectively just made it through the toughest economic year and good riddance! To quote the comedian Lily Tomlin - "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up". We certainly have enough cynicism in the IT world but at the beginning of every new year I think most of us feel a moment of optimism. So I am going to go with that for right now. Here are some things to think about for Storage and IT going forward in 2010: more »
Tags: automated tiering, backup, cisco, data deduplication, dedupe, dell, desktop vritualization, disk-to-disk backup, emc, hds, ibm, information technology, intelligent tiering, it, pc power management, server virtualization, storage, sub-lun tiering, ucs, unified computing platform, virtualization, vmware