Contributing Editorial: Implement Deduplication Without Throwing Money And Caution To The Wind

By Jerome Wendt, DCIG LLC

Backup is about more than just deduplication ratios and faster backups. While these are important, companies also want assurance that the solution that they deploy in-house is continually developing, will help them manage their existing backup infrastructure and will scale as they grow.

Today's announcements from Quantum indicate that it is committed to making these ongoing, continual and incremental changes to its product lines (hardware and software) in order to meet current and future customer demands. Enhancements to its Vision global system management software indicate that Quantum recognizes that companies intend to support and manage both disk and tape as part of their backup storage infrastructure long term. The other announcement that the DXi7500 will now start with support for 9 TBs of capacity is indicative of Quantum's awareness that for it to compete in some customer accounts, the DXI7500 needed a smaller initial storage capacity footprint.