Monday, March 12, 2007

Virtual Tape Libraries/Disk to Disk Backup???

I have recently been introduced to new technology that has compression rates on storage that is enough to cause refridgerator toting storage vendors to quiver in their boots. This technology, which is delivered by the likes of Data Domain and others claims to take take time, money, stress, and annoyance out of tape-based backup and can reduce the amount of disk storage required up to 300 times or something like that...

So, my question, is this the future? Is this really happening? Are storage vendors really threatened by this technology?

I would assume that the EMC's of the world have a response; or a product of their own; or an M&A team working on something as I type this message.

Educate me...

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