Greetings, everyone. I’ve been back from my trip for a while; I apologize for the lack of posts! I’ll get some pictures up soon, although the ones in the official gallery are surely better. I’ll post some of the favorite things I saw later.
Over at his blog, Scott Waterhouse (from EMC) takes to task backup vendors that claim outrageous dedupe ratios. Now, this is just a wee bit entertaining given that EMC Avamar has been claiming deduplication ratios of 300:1 for many years now, but his point is absolutely valid. (more…)