On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Bruno Sousa wrote: >> >> Despite the fact that i agree in general with your comments, in reality >> it all comes to money.. >> So in this case, if i could prove that ZFS was able to find X amount of >> duplicated data, and since that X amount of data has a price of Y per >> GB, IT could be seen as business enabler instead of a cost centre. > > Most of the cost of storing business data is related to the cost of backing > it up and administering it rather than the cost of the system on which it is > stored. In this case it is reasonable to know the total amount of user data > (and charge for it), since it likely needs to be backed up and managed. > Deduplication does not help much here.
Um, I thought deduplication had been invented to reduce backup window :). Regards, Andrey > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
