Beyond being a druid, I am a Storage Architect with experience with arrays from HDS, NetApp, Compaq/HP, and EMC. This will be my space to talk a little about the things I see and the effect they will have on the industry.
EMC to NetApp: Get Fucked
Posted 06/01/09 at 8:29 PM by Zeln
As most folks in the storage world know, last week NetApp offered to buy Data Domain for 25.00 in cash/stock for each current Data Domain stock.
There was some confusion in the industry, as NetApp has a deduplication engine already (what Data Domain is famous for). The NetApp engine however, causes the performance to half while engaged.
In addition, there is talk that Data Domain was working on a production array with inline deduplication (Most deduplication is done to archive or data targets).
Both of these where things that where probably worth the purchase.
However, today EMC offered 30.00 cash for each Data Domain Stock. This deal should be hugely attractive to Data Domain in its worth more and EMC should be able to better take care of former Data Domain employees. EMC wins because their current deduplication engine is licensed from Quantum, a company who's stock has devalued to penny stock status. In addition, if the engine can survive the transplant from the Data Domain hardware to the EMC's universal hardware platform, then perhaps it can enjoy life in a scalable architecture.
There was some confusion in the industry, as NetApp has a deduplication engine already (what Data Domain is famous for). The NetApp engine however, causes the performance to half while engaged.
In addition, there is talk that Data Domain was working on a production array with inline deduplication (Most deduplication is done to archive or data targets).
Both of these where things that where probably worth the purchase.
However, today EMC offered 30.00 cash for each Data Domain Stock. This deal should be hugely attractive to Data Domain in its worth more and EMC should be able to better take care of former Data Domain employees. EMC wins because their current deduplication engine is licensed from Quantum, a company who's stock has devalued to penny stock status. In addition, if the engine can survive the transplant from the Data Domain hardware to the EMC's universal hardware platform, then perhaps it can enjoy life in a scalable architecture.
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The whole while, IBM is sitting down and counting its money
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Due to flexibility needs(insert groan here) we wound up ditching a EMC Celerra for Netapp Filers.
Any idea if EMC ever added the capability to shrink their volumes? |
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not at the storage level. They require you to do it at the host level. The only way Netapp allows this, as far as I know, is if you're not doing block level IO (iSCSI or FC). Anyone can resize an NFS or CIFS share- no magic sauce there.
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