Bruce Breidall said:

>My off hours calls have literally gone to zero since implementing VTL.

I've heard that SO many times.

>When Ethernet 10 Gb becomes more mainstream, then the fibre
>will become less of a compelling factor.

I'll eat my hat when 10 GbE becomes faster than FC without bringing the
server that's using it to it's knees. ;)

>I think that adding dedup is the tricky part, because that in almost
all
>cases requires extensive analysis and redesign of the backup
>infrastructure  to make sure the performance limits of your dedup
>appliance are not exceeded. 

Amen!  If only there was a company that could help you with that. ;)

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