Or, check out a highly-successful, widely-used, fully-supported
solution: Avamar. Which, incidentally, has good integration with
NetWorker.
tl
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:54 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Question on data deduplication products?
Question 1:
Does anyone know if any companies make data deduplication software that
the end user can install on their own RH Linux server as opposed to a
vendor supplied hardware & software (turnkey) solution?
Concern:
We're interested in possibly implementing data duplication in the near
future for the expected cost savings of tape media. Obviously, a
solution involving a vendor's supplied hardware might be better
optimized (I'd hope so) over what we might be able to accomplish
purchasing our own server; however, we're concerned about adding a
'black box' to the network from some vendor wherein we might not have
control over its OS, kernel, patches, etc. We'd much prefer to wipe the
OS and install our own for security compliance, or simply use our own
server and attached disks from scratch, using only the supplied software
from the vendor, assuming it supports our OS and hardware. Is this
possible with any of the commercial players out there?
Question 2:
Assuming we can purchase just the software, how much of a performance
hit might we expect versus a vendor optimized hardware/software
solution?
I'm trying to limit this post to the security aspects/risks of vendor's
hardware and not the merits or debates over the various types of
deduplication, e.g. post-process versus in-line, or concerns or
drawbacks of using deduplication in general. I'll save that for another
post. However, if anyone feels this is relevant, then by all means,
chime in.
Thanks.
George
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