Comments on: Sepaton promises 40:1 dedupe, or your next disk’s on them http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/sepaton-promises-401-dedupe-or-your-next-disks-on-them/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steven Schwartz http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/sepaton-promises-401-dedupe-or-your-next-disks-on-them/#comment-7221 Steven Schwartz Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:50:14 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/30/sepaton-promises-401-dedupe-or-your-next-disks-on-them/#comment-7221 Are we serious? Do we (the storage vendors) think our customers are stupid? They require you to go from the typical weekly full backup, to daily full backups as part of this "guarantee"! This is no different then NetApp's "Savings" comparing RAID10 solutions to RAID-DP (RAID6) solutions. (41% savings by the way just in the RAID change, leaving only 9% savings coming from snapshots and deduplication) Are we serious? Do we (the storage vendors) think our customers are stupid?

They require you to go from the typical weekly full backup, to daily full backups as part of this “guarantee”!

This is no different then NetApp’s “Savings” comparing RAID10 solutions to RAID-DP (RAID6) solutions. (41% savings by the way just in the RAID change, leaving only 9% savings coming from snapshots and deduplication)

]]> By: Pete Steege http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/sepaton-promises-401-dedupe-or-your-next-disks-on-them/#comment-7220 Pete Steege Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:50:09 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/30/sepaton-promises-401-dedupe-or-your-next-disks-on-them/#comment-7220 Now you're talkin'! Nice to see Sepaton put their money where their mouth is. Now you’re talkin’! Nice to see Sepaton put their money where their mouth is.

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