Data dedupe tops IT managers' future tech list

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 October 2009, 22:15 IST
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Data dedupe tops IT managers' future tech list
Phoenix: IT managers believe that the key technology in the near future is data deduplication, they feel this technology can help them overcome the difficulties in managing the growing amount of data. Most managers interviewed at the technology event Storage Networking World said that their data silos have grown to the point where they are becoming difficult to manage, with more growth expected in the coming years, reports Computerworld. The IT managers feel that data deduplication would offer them significant relief in managing data. It could also drastically reduce capacity requirements and costs by allowing them to use their storage assets more effectively. However, on the implementation of this technology the opinions differed from person to person. Brett Michalak, Chief Information Officer at online ticket retailer Tickets.com, said data deduplication and wide area network (WAN) optimization technology would help him deal with about 100 terabyte (TB) of virtualized storage capacity. Through virtualization, Michalak said he is able to provision storage on the fly and keep up with changing customer service level agreements. Michalak sees in his company's future the complete elimination of tape-based backup and a move toward nearline disk-based storage. Mark Saussure, Director of Digital Library Infrastructure for Penn State University, said his 160TB of disk-based data is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years. To address that growth, he has been rolling out the eXtensible Access Method (XAM). This is a specification developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association that will help him not only to automate backup across tiers of storage, but also allow anyone to search silos and retrieve data through the use of standardized meta data.

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