We’ve all heard about the capacity savings that can be achieved with deduplication for backups and other secondary storage requirements. Some of those solutions do compression on top of deduplication to magnify the savings. But dedupe and compression take a lot of CPU horsepower and slow things down. The slow down can be managed for backups, but it seems impossible that real-time compression can work quick enough to meet the performance requirements of primary storage applications. I was truly surprised when ESG Lab found that Storwize compression not only squishes primary NAS capacity up to 91%, in many cases it actually improves performance as the number of disk operations are reduced in real-time. To learn more, check out this ESG Lab Validation report.

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