Amita Potnis and Benjamin Woo dispel the myths regarding de-duplication in high performance environments. They review five key questions about de-duplication in primary storage environments:
- How are small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) different from large enterprises in terms of their storage needs?
- What is contributing to the explosive growth of data?
- What are some of the technologies that organizations can deploy to address cost and explosive data growth while improving capacity efficiencies?
- Primary deduplication often carries a connotation of performance penalties. What approaches can be taken to overcome this?
- What types of applications can benefit from primary deduplication?
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About the Author:
Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry’s most interesting companies over the past twenty years. As Vice President of Marketing at Tegile, he leads the company’s marketing strategy, go to market and demand generation activities, as well as competitive analysis. Rob comes to Tegile from HP/3PAR, where he led the product marketing team through several product launches and 3X customer growth over three quarters. Rob also managed much of the functional marketing and operations integration after Hewlett Packard acquired 3PAR. At Pillar Data Systems, he was at the forefront of converged NAS/SAN storage systems and application-aware QoS in mid-range storage. Rob is also a veteran of StorageWay, one of the first storage services providers that launched cloud services. Twitter: @robcommins