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Data Centers

Deduplicating Elsewhere

George Crump
February 16, 2010
Deduplication technology discussions usually center on deduplicating the backup target. That makes sense, as this is where the biggest payoff is for the technology. Increasingly, the...
Data Centers

NAS Commoditization

George Crump
February 02, 2010
Does basic office productivity application data like spreadsheets, word processing and presentation files belong on a purpose-built NAS? Most NAS systems are now tuned to deliver high-...
Data Centers

SAN Cloud Storage

George Crump
January 21, 2010
As we discussed in my last entry, the use of cloud storage for primary data has become more practical, especially for NAS-based use. It is going to require more work but there are some...
Data Centers

The Cloud As Primary Storage

George Crump
January 19, 2010
To this point and for the foreseeable future, cloud storage will largely be isolated to use as an archive or as a backup destination. At some point, however, cloud providers are going to...