Tag Archives: storage efficiency

More on data growth from NetApp analyst days customers

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Ray

Some customers at NetApp’s Analyst Days were discussing deployments of NetApp storage with Dave Hitz the new storage efficiency czar and others but I was more interested in their comments on storage growth issues. Jonathan Bartes of Virginia Farm Bureau … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Data growth | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Data, Data efficiency, storage economics, Storage Features, Storage performance, Systems | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment