Diligent, you know… the place I work for, has announced a speed record which was achieved on a customer’s site. The throughput speed recorded there was 400 MB/second. Now it may not sound like a lot, but let me tell you why it’s impressive: Diligent’s product does not duplicate data that was already backed up. Generally, this kind of technology is called de-duplication. Diligent’s product is called ProtecTIER.
To do de-duplication the machine has to identify whether the information is already there or not. Doing this efficiently on huge amounts of data is very hard. Considering another fact – that ProtecTIER does this while the data is flowing and not in some background process like other de-duplication products – makes it even more impressive. We have a really good team here.
I guess you have to be a part of this to really appreciate both the amount of work that is put into ever-increasing throughput speeds and the way everyone here works towards this goal, always coming up with new ideas and improvements.
If you want to learn more about backup de-duplication technologies, you can read about it in this fresh Computer World article.
We simply rule :)