Deduplication
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Deduplication: DataDomain vs ProtecTIER – Performance
[Migrated post from my old site, comments unfortunately remain behind] Let’s talk about the performance characteristics of the EMC DataDomain and the IBM ProtecTIER. I had the privilege for some months to have both an EMC DD890 and an IBM TS7650G onsite. Both are close to top of the range and were connected via multiple 8 […]
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Deduplication: DataDomain vs ProtecTIER
[Migrated post from my old site, comments unfortunately remain behind] I’ve been doing some interesting tests on EMC’s DataDomain & IBM’s ProtecTIER. Both are apparently the leaders in the industry on secondary storage deduplication. So our friendly resellers brought us one each to test: an EMC DD890 and an IBM ProtecTIER of some designation (I forget […]