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Data Compression Q&A

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 Ilker Cebeli Leave a comment

Everyone is looking to squeeze more efficiency from storage. That’s why the

SNIA Networking Storage Forum hosted a live webcast last month “Compression: Putting the Squeeze on Storage.” The audience asked many great questions on compression techniques. Here are answers from our expert presenters, John Kim and Brian Will:

Q. When multiple unrelated entities are likely to compress the data, how do they understand that the data is already compressed and so skip the compression?

A. Often they can tell from the file extension or header that the file has already been compressed. Otherwise each entity that wants to compress the data will try to compress it and then discard the results if it makes the file larger (because it was already compressed).

Not Again! Data Deduplication for Storage Systems

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Alex McDonald Leave a comment

As explained in our webcast on Data Reduction, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Storage But Were Too Proud to Ask: Data Reduction,” organizations inevitably store many copies of the same data. Intentionally or inadvertently, users and applications copy and store the same files over and over; with developers, testers and analysts keeping many more copies. And backup programs copy the same or only slightly modified files daily, often to multiple locations and storage devices. It’s not unusual to end up with some data replicated thousands of times, enough to drive storage administrators and managers of IT budgets crazy.

So how do we stop the duplication madness? Join us on November 10, 2020 for a live SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast, “Not Again! Data Deduplication for Storage Systems” where our SNIA experts will discuss how to reduce the number of copies of data that get stored, mirrored, and backed up.

Attend this sanity-saving webcast to learn more about:

Compression Puts the Squeeze on Storage

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Ilker Cebeli Leave a comment

Everyone knows data volumes are exploding faster than IT budgets. And customers are increasingly moving to flash storage, which is faster and easier to use than hard drives, but still more expensive. To cope with this conundrum and squeeze more efficiency from storage, storage vendors and customers can turn to data reduction techniques such as compression, deduplication, thin provisioning and snapshots.

On September 2, 2020, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum will specifically focus on data compression in our live webcast, “Compression: Putting the Squeeze on Storage.” Compression can be done at different times, at different stages in the storage process, and using different techniques. We’ll discuss:

Data Reduction: Don’t Be Too Proud to Ask

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 John Kim Leave a comment

It’s back! Our SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast series “Everything You Wanted to Know About Storage but Were Too Proud to Ask” will return on August 18, 2020. After a little hiatus, we are going to tackle the topic of data reduction.

Everyone knows data volumes are growing rapidly (25-35% per year according to many analysts), far faster than IT budgets, which are constrained to flat or minimal annual growth rates. One of the drivers of such rapid data growth is storing multiple copies of the same data. Developers copy data for testing and analysis. Users email and store multiple copies of the same files. Administrators typically back up the same data over and over, often with minimal to no changes.

To avoid a budget crisis and paying more than once to store the same data, storage vendors and customers can use data reduction techniques such as deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, clones, and snapshots.

On August 18th, our live webcast “Everything You Wanted to Know about Storage but Were Too Proud to Ask – Part Onyx” will focus on the fundamentals of data reduction, which can be performed in different places and at different stages of the data lifecycle. Like most technologies, there are related means to do this, but with enough differences to cause confusion. For that reason, we’re going to be looking at: