Jerome M. Wendt: June 2008 Archives

The juxtaposition of deduplication and replication in disk-based backup appliances is a powerful combination that companies can use to protect backed up data across data centers as well as data backed up at remote and branch offices (ROBOs). Yet where deduplication ends and replication starts can get a little confusing in grid storage architectures such as is supported by the NEC HYDRAstor that features global deduplication capabilities. (read more)

At recent storage conferences (Storage Decisions, Storage Networking World, etc.) replication has emerged as a hot topic of discussion among end-users. In talking with these different users and listening in on a number of end-user panel discussions, there are a number of factors that they attribute to their increased interest in using replication as part of their company's overall disk-based data protection strategy. (read more)