Optimize Primary Storage with Compression

IT managers struggling to support nearly out-of-control data growth tend to look beyond secondary storage for solutions. This InfoStor report suggests that primary storage tends to be extremely performance sensitive, and to consider compression for primary storage optimization.

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"Capacity optimization has long been a tale of secondary storage, where large amounts of duplicate data – often the product of disk-to-disk backup – and less demanding I/O patterns rule the roost. The solutions that have risen to the challenges in this domain have been nothing short of impressive, and through innovative combinations of technologies – file single instancing, fixed- and variable-length sub-file deduplication, compression, and more – solutions in this space have demonstrated they can sometimes drive stored data down to 1/20th the size of its original footprint, or better. With such compelling promises of capacity optimization, the market for these solutions has grown beyond $2 billion."

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