In what seems to me to be kicking a perfectly good supplier when it's down, Beth Pariseau at SearchDataBackup.com reports that IBM stated that FalconStor's SIR deduplication add-on for their virtual tape library didn't make it through the validation process. Given the fact that IBM recently bought Diligent Technologies for its ProtecTIER deduping VTL software, it's no surprise that someone at IBM wasn't convinced that Single Instance Repository, or SIR, was the best thing since sliced bread.

Howard Marks, Network Computing Blogger

May 14, 2008

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In what seems to me to be kicking a perfectly good supplier when it's down, Beth Pariseau at SearchDataBackup.com reports that IBM stated that FalconStor's SIR deduplication add-on for their virtual tape library didn't make it through the validation process. Given the fact that IBM recently bought Diligent Technologies for its ProtecTIER deduping VTL software, it's no surprise that someone at IBM wasn't convinced that Single Instance Repository, or SIR, was the best thing since sliced bread.

About the Author(s)

Howard Marks

Network Computing Blogger

Howard Marks is founder and chief scientist at Deepstorage LLC, a storage consultancy and independent test lab based in Santa Fe, N.M. and concentrating on storage and data center networking. In more than 25 years of consulting, Marks has designed and implemented storage systems, networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, J.P. Morgan, Borden Foods, U.S. Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide, Foxwoods Resort Casino and the State University of New York at Purchase. The testing at DeepStorage Labs is informed by that real world experience.

He has been a frequent contributor to Network Computing and InformationWeek since 1999 and a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Interop and Microsoft's TechEd since 1990. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams).

He is co-host, with Ray Lucchesi of the monthly Greybeards on Storage podcast where the voices of experience discuss the latest issues in the storage world with industry leaders.  You can find the podcast at: http://www.deepstorage.net/NEW/GBoS

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