Tag Archives: data compression

Pure Storage surfaces

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ray

We were talking with Pure Storage last week, another SSD startup which just emerged out of stealth mode today.  Somewhat like SolidFire which we discussed a month or so ago, Pure Storage uses only SSDs to provide primary storage.  In … Continue reading →

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Data compression lives on

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ray

Last week NetApp announced the availability of data compression on many of their unified storage platforms, which includes block and file storage.  Earlier this year EMC announced data compression for LUNs on CLARiion and Celerra.  I must commend both of … Continue reading →

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Primary storage compression can work

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Ray

Since IBM’s announced their intent to purchase StorWize there has been much discussion on whether primary storage data compression can be made to work.  As far as I know StorWize only offered primary storage compression for file data but there is nothing … Continue reading →

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