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Retroactive Deduplication and Compression

Posted on December 15, 2014 by George Crump

In recent months there has been a lot of attention given to how primary storage deduplication is being implemented; should it be implemented selectively, or always on? The problem with this discussion is that it first assumes that the existing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Hybrid Flash, Permabit, Retroactive Deduplication, storage array
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Permabit Provides Retroactive Deduplication via EMC Select – Podcast

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Retroactive deduplication is the ability to add deduplication to an existing storage array without the vendor having to change its storage software. One vendor that seems to be out in front with retroactive deduplication is Permabit. On a recent Podcast…

Tagged with: Deduplication, EMC, Permabit, Retroactive Deduplication, storage array
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash

Posted on November 21, 2014 by George Crump

In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge

Posted on September 11, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers are ready for increased data efficiency that they can get from primary storage deduplication and compression, especially for flash based storage systems. The cost of flash justifies these data reduction technologies and flash’s high performance actually enables their…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Integration, Permabit, storage array, Tier-1
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What is a Storage Controller?

Posted on November 22, 2011 by George Crump

Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…