Pets, Cattle, Insects and the Fabric of life

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, I have always associated the ‘Pets to Cattle’ analogy with the move from Physical to Virtual servers and the increasing number of these needed as the number of applications a business supports grows. For those of you that haven’t heard the analogy, it goes something like this… Before virtualisation we used to[…]

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What is your Data Amplification Ratio (DAR)?

It’s time to think differently about how you measure the efficiency of your Data and the technology that underpins it! For many years we Storage Vendors have continuously challenged each other for supremacy in the amount of Storage efficiency that we could give you, starting with SnapShots as a way of reducing backup overheads, then on to Deduplication, Compression, Compaction,[…]

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