07 Dec 2011 |
If you are evaluating dedupe solutions, the dedupe ratios claimed by dedupe vendors are bound to intrigue you. I have seen claims of dedupe rates as high as 50:1 and I am sure there are claims of even higher dedupe than that. Are such dedupe rates realistic? Speaking truthfully, yes, but one must understand the assumptions and the math behind such high dedupe rates.
10 Aug 2011 |
In my current role at Symantec, I spend a lot of time talking to customers about their data protection strategies. It is interesting to note how much misinformation some of our competitors continue to give customers about Symantec’s deduplication technology.
19 May 2011 |
Having personally witnessed the evolution of data deduplication technologies over the years, I can say that deduplication has come a long way both in terms of maturity of vendor offerings, and end user sophistication.
29 Jan 2009 |
A few months back, I was riding in my colleague’s car and his iPOD interface to the car caught my eye. His car did not have a “native iPOD adapter” and so he had bought this aftermarket device that plugged into his iPOD and allowed him to control the iPOD directly from his car’s audio controls.