Primary Storage Dedupe & Compression Find Their Niche
An article in SearchStorage UK by Bryan Betts reviews primary storage dedupe & compression solutions. The article includes an interview with Phil Knowles of Imagination technology, one of the top providers of specialized semiconductors for the mobile handset market.
"Our server rooms were at their maximum capacity, and disk storage uses the majority of that space," he explained. "We really couldn't afford an expansion in disk space and didn't want to throw away perfectly good equipment to replace it with higher-density storage." He goes on to say, "It works fine, and we're getting reduction ratios of nearly 80%, much better than other file system compression tools we benchmarked," Knowles said.
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"Our server rooms were at their maximum capacity, and disk storage uses the majority of that space," he explained. "We really couldn't afford an expansion in disk space and didn't want to throw away perfectly good equipment to replace it with higher-density storage." He goes on to say, "It works fine, and we're getting reduction ratios of nearly 80%, much better than other file system compression tools we benchmarked," Knowles said.
Read the entire article.