Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-18 Thread Matthew Large
Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: 18 April 2008 15:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Fw: TSM being abandoned? A few more points: - It's true that hardware compression is faster than software compression, and off-loads the server. Har

Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Zarnowski
A few more points: - It's true that hardware compression is faster than software compression, and off-loads the server. Hardware compression often is an extra-cost item. This can also be true of encryption, if done in hardware. The question is, where do you want to do your encryption? At the

Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-17 Thread Remco Post
Nicholas Cassimatis wrote: > As an appliance, I call that Hardware, as in it's a device outside of the > host getting the service, performing the service. You can call an apple a pear, but that will not make it so. Now, more to the point, of course an appliance doing exactly one task (dedup incom

Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-17 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
d by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 04/17/2008 04:02 PM - "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 04/17/2008 02:29:00 PM: > [image removed] > > Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned? > > Curtis Preston > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 04/17/2008 02:34 PM > >

Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-17 Thread Curtis Preston
ay, April 17, 2008 10:58 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Fw: TSM being abandoned? > > Compression and encryption are also much faster in hardware than software > - > especially when the software is running on a processor doing other work. > Nothing new under t

Fw: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-17 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Compression and encryption are also much faster in hardware than software - especially when the software is running on a processor doing other work. Nothing new under the sun - it's just the same paradigm applied to a new function. Nick Cassimatis - Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IB