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F5 Networks (recently on Business Tech Feed: F5 Networks - A Case of Applications and the Network) has partnered with Data Domain to deliver an intelligent data management solution. Data Domain are best known for their data deplucation systems, and are part of F5’s technology alliance program.
The joint solution targets the data-at-rest problem, by moving static and archive data to secondary storage systems. Data-at-rest is a significant issue in many NAS and SAN set ups, where this little use data often consumes expensive, high-performance storage, when it should really be tucked away in a cheaper area of the networked storage domain.
Data Domain deals with the data deduplication, while the F5 ARX series provides the file virtualization to make the migration invisible to users. In the words of Terri McClure, of the Enterprise Strategy Group:
“Customers are looking for ways to extend the life of their technology investments, especially in today’s challenging economic environment. Implementing a storage tiering solution, such as the one developed by F5 and Data Domain, is an ideal way to reclaim tier 1 storage by non-disruptively migrating less-used data off of tier 1 and onto appropriate storage tiers. This ensures users are only storing a single copy of that data, which increases overall disk utilization. These types of partnerships are important to customers. The thorough, end-to-end solution testing helps take risk out of deploying a combined solution.”
I mentioned in the podcast that more smart things will be happening in the data centre. This is a really good example of that, as it were. A bit of intelligence that will drive out a lot of cost. Storage is a cash (and bandwidth) hog, anything that gets it back under control is a good thing in my book.
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