Guest Column: How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage

By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O.