Jerome M. Wendt: December 2007 Archives

HYDRAstor's grid storage architecture conversely can start small but linearly and independently scale performance or capacity or both. HYDRAstor decouples performance nodes (called Accelerator Nodes) from capacity nodes (called Storage Nodes) creating two separate layers that act independently of one another and possess their own levels of intelligence. (read more)
Data recovery is where the rubber meets the road. However I am not sure if deduplication vendors always practice what they preach because vendors almost immediately divert the focus of users off of data recovery speeds and onto how fast... (read more)

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