Category Archives: Data efficiency

Why EMC is doing Project Lightening and Thunder

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Ray

Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess,  I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading →

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Oracle RMAN and data deduplication – part 2

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Ray

I have blogged about the poor deduplication ratios seen when using Oracle 10G RMAN compression before (see my prior post) but not everyone uses compressed backupsets.  As such, the question naturally arises as how well RMAN non-compressed backupsets deduplicate. RMAN backup types … Continue reading →

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Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading →

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Cloud storage, CDP & deduplication

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Ray

Somebody needs to create a system that encompasses continuous data protection, deduplication and cloud storage.  Many vendors have various parts of such a solution but none to my knowledge has put it all together. Why CDP, deduplication and cloud storage? … Continue reading →

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Dits, codons & chromosomes – the storage of life

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Ray

I was thinking the other day that DNA could easily be construed as information storage for life.  For example, DNA uses 4-distinct nucleic acids (A, C, G, & U) as its basic information unit.  I would call these units of … Continue reading →

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Describing Dedupe

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Ray

Deduplication is a mechanism to reduce the amount of data stored on disk for backup, archive or even primary storage.  For any storage, data is often duplicated and any system that eliminates storing duplicate data will be more utilize storage … Continue reading →

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