Infostor Editor-in-Chief Dave Simpson interviews Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale about the future of dedupe.

"Murli offered four predictions on data reduction for primary storage:

--Every major storage vendor will have primary storage deduplication in their portfolio by 2011, whether by building it or buying it. And by 2012 every major host vendor – including servers and virtualization platforms – will have data reduction built in.

--The compression vs. deduplication argument will go away as users realize that you need both. Each technology has advantages/disadvantages for different data types and access patterns. [Ocarina’s technology combines compression and deduplication.]

--The industry will eventually have solutions integrated across all tiers of storage, rather than point solutions for different tiers. You shouldn’t have to re-hydrate across tiers or workflows. Once you shrink the data, keep it shrunk.

--Deduplication is not a feature; it’s a business. The data deduplication market will exceed $3 billion within five years. And I think it will ramp faster on primary storage than it did in the backup market.”



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