Lee Johns is one of my new co-workers at HP and he gets himself into all sorts of interesting things - like the upper left corner of this video, where he talks about data sprawl, dedupe and HP's StoreOnce technology.
He does an excellent job highlighting how StoreOnce technology is portable and can be located in any location in the infrastructure with the ability to transfer deduped data without the necessity of rehydrating and deduping it.
Now that NetApp and later this year EMC will have primary storage de-dupe, I hope HP has plans to incorporate this technology into 3PAR arrays this year, otherwise they will be lagging industry in an important feature. I see primary storage dedupe today where thin provisioning was 5 years ago. 3PAR lead thin provisioning with gusto before most people heard of it.
Posted by: Thomas | February 16, 2011 at 04:33 PM