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Deduplication and Replication

One of the most compelling features of EMC’s DL3D appliances are their ability to schedule deduplication. Now, competitors are fond of portraying this flexibility as a weakness, but the truth is far different. In fact, this flexibility let your choose your priorities. What do you want to finish first? Backup? Or replication?

Lets take a look at how the systems behave, and see what the consequences are.

First, some background and assumptions. All numbers are real, achievable, and realistic in normal backup environments:

  • In-line deduplication is 1.44 TB/hr over IP (true for both the DL3D 3000 and the DD690)
  • Scheduled deduplication is 2.5 TB/hr over FC (for the DL3D 3000)
  • IP replication runs at 250 GB/hr (this is really bound by link speed, latency, and so on, so I have chosen a modest figure representative of a single Gigabit IP link with low-ish latency)

In addition to this, to clarify the terms:

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October 3rd, 2008 | Data Technology | No Comments »

Fun With Tape, Part 2!

A fun little video from the good guys in marketing at EMC. I now have definitive proof that there are at least two of them with a sense of humor. Who’d have thunk? :)

It is just a little riff on the whole “I’m a Mac… And I’m a PC!” thing, involving disk with deduplication and tape. Enjoy.

September 17th, 2008 | Data Technology | No Comments »

Backup and Recovery Webinars

Thought a few people might be interested in these. Yes I am advertising. But I am advertising for knowledge. This is all good stuff if you need to worry about VMware or bare metal recovery. If you don’t? Nothing to see here, move along…

The sessions are:

1 ) A Smarter Approach to Server Recovery

Thursday, September 18, 2008 – 3:00 pm ET. How to implement a complete solution to quickly recover from server hardware failures.

2) Best Practices for Backup and De-duplication in a VMware Environment

Thursday, Sept 24th, 2008 – 3:00 pm ET. With VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and EMC Avamar de-duplication, EMC provides leading-edge backup methodologies for virtual environments. Backup that reduces bandwidth contention, improves availability of CPU and memory resources, performs faster backups, and saves you time and money. EMC Avamar quickly and efficiently protects virtual machines with global data de-duplication technology.

3) The Ideal Solution for Protecting Physical and Virtual Environments.

Thursday, October 9, 2008 – 3:00 pm ET. How to optimize your backup system by Integrating deduplication into your VMware environment.

September 16th, 2008 | Data Technology | No Comments »