I was just reading comments written by Tarry in response to my posting Which industry segment most likely to use Virtualization? He mentioned about APERI project by IBM et al. Jon William Toigo also has been blogging and writing columns about Aperi.
My (mis?) understanding is that Aperi is suppose to be a "open source" initiative. When was the last time a "proprietary source" company started a successful "open source" project?
It has been few months since Aperi announcement was first made. So, I figured by now there must be some real stuff out there about this "open source" initiative. And what did I find? Nothing, nada! Only press releases and media articles. Even website of IBM, supposedly the leader of this gang, has no substantial information on Aperi. Toigo's blog gives the impression that Aperi initiative has been dumped now in the lap of SNIA.
I am impressed with the progress of the Aperi project and the participants' commitment. Can someone care to explain, why should users buy into Ideas running on fumes?
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Monday, January 30, 2006
Coolest Product, Episode 2: Technology
Today, while reviewing the new blog posts, I came across Heidi Biggar entry To de-dupe or not to de-dupe about data de-duplication / capacity optimization / commonality factoring / single-instancing. In my last entry The Coolest Product from a Storage Startup, I mentioned coming across an exciting product and this product happen to fall in to the same category as mentioned by Heidi.
I agree with her observation that capacity optimization will be one of this year's most talked about new technology. Unlike storage virtualization hype of today, capacity optimization is delivering measurable and significant value to customer. But, it may take few years before the full potential of this technology is realized.
I believe the impact of capacity optimization goes beyond just data protection to primary storage. Just consider the possibility of able to store 50TB data on a 3TB storage array. The technology is quite powerful specially when it is positioned as data virtualization across an enterprise - removing the repeating segments everywhere in the enterprise with pointers to the centrally stored single instance of that segment.
A good "geek" read on the inner working of this technology is the US patent 6,928,526 Efficient Data Storage System granted to Dr. Kai Li, co-founder of DataDomain, and others. In my opinion, they shortchanged themselves with restricting their patient to data protection only or may be that was the only way to get the patent as I noticed patent examiner added several other patents as reference. I haven’t had chance to read them yet.
I fully agree with statement by Heidi about capacity optimization:
I'm pretty certain you'll be amazed at the results!
I agree with her observation that capacity optimization will be one of this year's most talked about new technology. Unlike storage virtualization hype of today, capacity optimization is delivering measurable and significant value to customer. But, it may take few years before the full potential of this technology is realized.
I believe the impact of capacity optimization goes beyond just data protection to primary storage. Just consider the possibility of able to store 50TB data on a 3TB storage array. The technology is quite powerful specially when it is positioned as data virtualization across an enterprise - removing the repeating segments everywhere in the enterprise with pointers to the centrally stored single instance of that segment.
A good "geek" read on the inner working of this technology is the US patent 6,928,526 Efficient Data Storage System granted to Dr. Kai Li, co-founder of DataDomain, and others. In my opinion, they shortchanged themselves with restricting their patient to data protection only or may be that was the only way to get the patent as I noticed patent examiner added several other patents as reference. I haven’t had chance to read them yet.
I fully agree with statement by Heidi about capacity optimization:
I'm pretty certain you'll be amazed at the results!
Thursday, January 19, 2006
The Coolest Product from a Storage Startup
Suspense music starts ...
Couple of days ago, I came across an interesting product being evaluated in a data center. The data center personnel made very encouraging comments about this product. Since then, I have been researching the product with intention to write a blog entry.
Tonight, I noticed Dave Hitz comment The Coolest Storage Vendor. NetApp may be the coolest storage vendor according to Tony Asaro (see Storage Jumboree) but this product may be the coolest product, I came across recently, from a storage startup ... initial impression.
Opinion subject to change as I haven't yet finished reviewing all available information. ;-)
<< More to come >>
... suspense music fading away.
Couple of days ago, I came across an interesting product being evaluated in a data center. The data center personnel made very encouraging comments about this product. Since then, I have been researching the product with intention to write a blog entry.
Tonight, I noticed Dave Hitz comment The Coolest Storage Vendor. NetApp may be the coolest storage vendor according to Tony Asaro (see Storage Jumboree) but this product may be the coolest product, I came across recently, from a storage startup ... initial impression.
Opinion subject to change as I haven't yet finished reviewing all available information. ;-)
<< More to come >>
... suspense music fading away.
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