Data Deduplicaton Tiered Storage?

[To-M]

No – you are not having a "slow" day. This was my miss interpretation. (Dyslexia have I).

Ok, Deduplication also known as de-duplication and "commonality factoring," "single-instance storage" or "intelligent compression (as you have stated)"
No we do not have this feature as of yet. Although after we complete some of the other larger projects with DSS (to be announced in August) this will be researched and planned with our software engineers to schedule a deadline.
Concerning the file management, again we will not be able to provide this.
Unfortunately we do not have both of these features. I have forward your file management inquirie to our software engineers to see if this is on our road map as you are correct this would increase the product value and we could charge more to pay for the development of these features (like NetApp). But then we would get hate mail. Great questions, wish I had more to offer .

[annubiz]

No – you are not having a "slow" day. This was my miss interpretation. (Dyslexia have I).

Ok, Deduplication also known as de-duplication and "commonality factoring," "single-instance storage" or "intelligent compression (as you have stated)"
No we do not have this feature as of yet. Although after we complete some of the other larger projects with DSS (to be announced in August) this will be researched and planned with our software engineers to schedule a deadline.
Concerning the file management, again we will not be able to provide this.
Unfortunately we do not have both of these features. I have forward your file management inquirie to our software engineers to see if this is on our road map as you are correct this would increase the product value and we could charge more to pay for the development of these features (like NetApp). But then we would get hate mail. Great questions, wish I had more to offer .

No worries I appreciate your candor in your reply. I still think this by all indications is really great product and since I have several build outs will continue to kinda nudge the features that I will be looking for my implementations. I have to consider both of these needs as they reduce overall cost to the organization which we are very aware of right now. That being said since they do reduce storage costs in the long run I think initial investment to get these features would defiantly be worth it at least when it comes down to what I'm purchasing for the company... my lab needs are less demanding atm.

[To-M]

Please keep nudging the ideas and suggestions, even though we are a small company we really strive to keep up with evolution and quality engineers like yourselves help us become better. You are so correct that Deduplication will be such a valuable asset to have along with clustering (rescheduled and no set date) that we are putting this on the design table. Companies are only great when they listen to there customers! Thanks!!

[To-M]

Wanted to provide an update to this subject on Deduplication - We can push to have this available but we will need some PO's to get it done. So you have more then one need for DSS let us know or if others will start requiring this to be done before purchasing several at one time then this can happen rapidly!