Data Efficiency at Scale
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The initial wave of data efficiency features for primary storage focus on silos of information organized in terms of individual file systems. Deduplication and compression features provided by some vendors are limited by the scalability of those underlying file systems, essentially the file systems have become silos of optimized data. For example, NetApp deduplication can’t scale beyond a 100 TB limit, because that’s the limit in size of its WAFL file system.
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