Did you get a chance to read “The Digital Universe Decade - Are You Ready?” published by IDC (May 2010)? This report is a follow-up from the 2007 report titled, “The Expanding Digital Universe”. I ask this question as I'm surprised by the number of individuals who are unaware of its existence. In fact I don’t believe I met more than a dozen individuals at VMworld (US & … [Read more...] about IDC says your data will grow and grow and grow…
Deduplication
FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
I'd like to ask you, do you think the following statements are generally considered to be true? Virtualization is software, and hardware is simply hardware RAID10 out performs all other RAID types that provide data protection (redundancy) Fibre Channel provides greater I/O performance than NFS for virtualized workloads Deduplicated data sets perform slower than … [Read more...] about FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees – Part II
I hope many of you read my recent post: Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees wherein I raised questions around the storage savings guarantee from EMC. The basic question is how can they deliver greater storage savings with fewer technical capabilities and use cases than what is available from NetApp. I believe this is a fair question and was hoping for some information sharing.Now … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees – Part II
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Way back at VMworld 2008 NetApp announced our 50% storage savings guarantee for virtual data centers. This guarantee basically stated that running VMware on NetApp would reduce one’s storage requirements by half and if we did not, the remaining storage was on us.At the time these storage savings were powered by our block-level data deduplication and thin provisioning of LUNs … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where each is best suited to be deployed.I’d like to thank all that chimed in to share their thoughts and knowledge in the comments section of this post. I believe … [Read more...] about Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap