Sound smart at your next dinner party
(On second thought, save it for your customers)
Deduplication is hip. It’s happenin’. How do you tout it/explain it in your solutions? The Backup Blog posted a thorough overview of the technology. Start cramming.
5 responses so far ↓
John McArthur // March 30, 2008 at 9:14 pm |
Pete,
While I appreciate the Backup Blog, don’t you think, in the interest of fair disclosure, that the site should be identified as a corporate blog site? It took a little digging to figure it out.
John
Pete Steege // March 31, 2008 at 8:29 am |
Scott Waterhouse from EMC writes the Backup Blog. Likewise, I work for Seagate, but blog about storage in general.
Neither Scott nor I claim to speak officially for our companies, although I acknowledge that my job definitely informs my blog.
TJ // March 31, 2008 at 8:59 am |
Bring up dedupe as a topic as a dinner party and you’ll see the eyes glaze over. Even backup will get a similar reception as discussing life insurance would (whole or term?)
Talk to people about peace of mind and getting more for their dollar, and you’ll at least get the dialogue going. Dedupe and backup are important technologies that deliver peace of mind.
BTW – dedupe isn’t just vaporware – it’s actually embedded in real life products – see here for an example -> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/govault_its_the.html
Peter Elliman // August 26, 2008 at 6:02 pm |
Pete – I also agree with John about Scott’s “backup blog”. In his mind he blogs objectively, but from my perspective, it is heavily slanted towards EMC. This is my opinion, of course. I sent an email to Scott Waterhouse (he replied back to me). He does identify himself as someone from EMC, so I give him credit there.
Second, his evaluation of dedupe vendors is far from objective.
Jon Togio gave it a spin when he posted a challenge to dedupe vendors to answer a long set of questions.
http://www.esj.com/Storage/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3200
Curtis Preston has also written one of the more objective pieces I’ve seen on deduplication.
I work on the backup side of the house for Symantec.
Pete Steege // August 26, 2008 at 8:40 pm |
Peter, thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m more laissez-faire on the employer declaration topic, but to each his own.