Data is growing at the rate of 50% per year and more, requiring you to purchase and consume more and more disk. You may now be under considerable pressure to manage these massive increases in data stored in production environments and put a halt to the capital expenditure on additional disk. Using storage as efficiently as possible should be now be a critical objective for your organisation.

 

 

 

Advanced data reduction and data de-duplication techniques have been used in the secondary storage environment to cost-effectively address the avalanche of backup and archival data that organisations must keep, delivering more than 2x compression and in many cases over 20X compression on backup and archival data. However, the algorithms and techniques used are not well suited to the primary storage environment. 

 

 

Primary storage requires something very different: real-time compression and optimisation without performance degradation, and without the need to change existing infrastructure. New approaches and algorithms are required in order to bring the same level of optimisation to the production storage environment.