All good things…
Today is a bit of a sad day for me, as this will be my last post on Online Storage Optimization. For those who are just joining us, I’ve been the regular “newsy” blogger on this site. It’s never been a...
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Storage Trends – Customer is King
Last week’s BD Event was more than just a deal making event. It was a chance to learn about new product releases and trend in the storage industry. The big picture: gone are the days when end users had...
View ArticleWhy Most Presentations are so Awful
George Crump of Storage Switzerland has a post up today on Network Computing that really should be made required reading for every single mid-level executive in the storage industry and beyond. He...
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Data Reduction to Improve Consumer Experience
Two identical photos placed side by side. Both are are blown up to large size on the wall. The difference? One has been compressed by 70% using a specialized compression technique called NFO, while...
View ArticleGet Ready for Dedupe 2.0
Data deduplication has become a very hot topic these days, especially in light of EMC’s recent and very high profile acquisition of Data Domain. This week, analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland...
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Got Ocarina?
With so much talk about dedupe lately, it’s hard to know which aspect of it to discuss first. We’ll begin by addressing a question we occasionally hear–most recently from a comment on this very blog....
View ArticleNetApp v. Ocarina on Dedupe
In the storage industry, there is plenty of talk about whose product is the best, with each vendor putting out their own marketing spin about why theirs is the superior one. Most analysts don’t have...
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