Comments on: Diligent Storage is Green Storage

By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:31:19 +0000

Great contribution Taylor - thanks. Its not a market I follow closely so your information is very helpful. Extremely cool to be coming from a Sun employee, commenting on a blog about IBM without a hint of snark. I wonder if the Diligent reseller agreement will continue? no reason why not. And it will be interesting to see it evolve as you say.

It won’t be long before IBM markets its green cred, I should think. It would be nice to get a comment here from the horse’s mouth.

By: Taylor Allis

Taylor Allis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:28:09 +0000

James - yes, this acquisition ends questions of how IBM was going to add deduplication to their product line. Looks like De-dup has been picked up by large market vendors, which is a good thing. IBM now has Diligent, HDS OEMs Diligent. EMC bought Avamar for de-dup, HP OEMs Sepaton, NetApp bought Alacritus. Sun partners (OEMs) FalconStor for de-dup (and resells Diligent).

Now the industry will invariably move to who’s approach is better - where is the best location to do your de-dup magic? Inline or post-processing? Which apps and data work best with de-dup? Where should one avoid it? How do you manage or minimize the perfromance hits you will take with de-dup? Yadda, yadda

Its been fun watching this technology come of age - it just makes sense…

By: John Webster

John Webster — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:47:38 +0000

It’s nice that Oracle NOW understands that efficient use of disk capacity is important.