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
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A few more points:
- It's true that hardware compression is faster than software compression,
and off-loads the server. Hardware
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
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Fw: TSM being abandoned?
Compression and encryption are also much faster in hardware than
software
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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
04:02 PM
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Re: Fw: TSM being abandoned?
Curtis Preston
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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
