It is 2010 and time to deduplicate, at least that's what 60% of the respondents in a recent IDC survey had to say. However once an enterprise has said it is going to deploy deduplication is the easy part. It gets a little tougher to find a deduplication solution that meets their diverse needs of affordability, high availability, scalability and simplicity. It is these enterprise hot buttons that the new SEPATON S2100-MS2 seeks to hit. (read more)
About a year ago I started to contemplate writing a book on the topic of 'Backup Redesign for Enterprise Organizations'. I even went so far as to register the domain name www.backupredesign.com in anticipation of writing and releasing a book on that topic. Fast forward to today and I am still examining how to best tackle the specific subject of disaster recovery (DR) in such a manner that it meets the needs of enterprise organizations. (read more)
In the last year or so a number of articles and blogs have appeared on the topic of inline and post-processing deduplication in an attempt to answer the question, "What is the best approach for deduplicating data during disk-based backup?" Unfortunately what these pieces fail to quantify is, "What objectives are enterprise organizations looking to accomplish with disk-based backup and recovery?" The problem this creates is that without first establishing these objectives, it makes it very difficult to arrive at any sort of meaningful conclusion about how to best proceed with deduplication. (read more)
Perhaps the biggest industry buzz coming out of the October 2009 SNW show was not any product announcement or new technology but an interview with EMC's Frank Slootman that appeared on SearchDataBackup.com. Minimally this interview made a number of revelations about EMC's current strategy and future direction for its Data Backup Division. But of greater concern for those enterprises planning to use EMC's products, it revealed a lack of understanding on Slootman's part in terms of what enterprise organizations are looking for in disk-based backup and deduplication solutions. (read more)
The lines between NAS and VTL have started to blur. More NAS solutions can now scale to hold more than one petabyte of deduplicated data, deliver sustainable aggregate throughputs of more than one TB/hour and handle multiple concurrent backup loads. This combination of features may make it seem like a face-off between upper end NAS and VTL solutions is looming in enterprise environments. (read more)
