Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication is fundamentally changing the data center and it appears that there’s more on the horizon. I’d like to share with you what I call ‘Data … [Read more...] about VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?
Deduplication
VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
Welcome to the first session in a series of blog posts entitled ‘Storage 101 - Virtualization Changes Everything’ Data deduplication was originally introduced in Data ONTAP 7.2 in July of 2006 as a technology that enhanced the NetApp Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup offerings. Coincidentally VMware released VI3 around the same time in June of 2006, and shortly thereafter customers … [Read more...] about VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com
Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com. I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced and clearly communicated. As I read the article I felt compelled to expand upon his suggestion that NAS may possibly be the optimal form of interconnect with VMware. … [Read more...] about A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com