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IBM Real-time Compression Solution (December 2010) |
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What if you had a solution that automatically compresses your files as you store them, in real time? That uses industry-standard compression technology that you know and trust—for the data integrity you need? And that automatically compresses your already-stored files non-disruptively in the background?
IBM Real-time Compression Appliances fit between Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems and network switches, and can compress files and databases up to 80%. This can increase application throughput and user response time by helping to improve the efficiency of both application servers and the storage systems. |
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Some key IBM Real-time Compression Appliance benefits that you can take advantage of immediately include:
• Storage Utilization: The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance compresses files and databases up to 80%, and slows the growth of storage acquisition and related storage life-cycle costs. Additionally, the compression accelerator feature built into the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance enables non-disruptive compression of data that has already been saved to disk, while ensuring that data remains accessible for applications and users. This capability can significantly enhance and accelerate the technology’s return on investment by creating more available storage capacity without expanding the storage footprint.
• Real-time operation: The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance supports the performance and accessibility requirements of business-critical applications because data is compressed in real time, without performance degradation.
• Transparency: The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance provides compatibility with downstream storage processes such as snapshots, clones, mirroring, archives and backups, including de-duplicated backups. Compressed data takes less time to backup and restore. And compression does not disrupt other blocks in the file, so downstream data de-duplication processes remain effective.
• Simplicity: The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance requires no software drivers and no configuration changes to applications, servers, networks or storage systems.
• High availability: The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance seamlessly integrates with existing high-availability storage system configurations, and supports enhanced monitoring for high-availability environments, so the organization can maintain service levels. |
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