Start-up Exagrid has introduced a 10TB dedupe appliance, configurable in a 10-node deduplication grid or cluster, with global reduplication across the nodes and Data Domain-beating performance. Exagrid provides disk-to-disk backup deduplication appliances that connect in a grid architecture for the mid-market. The company says …

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Tuesday 13th October 2009 19:42 GMT Nate Amsden

interesting timing

I just got a little box from Exagrid yesterday with a magnet that says "TAPE BACKUP Rest in Peace 1951-2009".

Kinda funny, I'm working on finalizing our setup for...you guessed it..off site tape backup.

Our data isn't well suited for dedupe.

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Wednesday 14th October 2009 12:12 GMT MinionZero

No wonder Google build their own servers...

"22TB starter DD880 is priced at £248,000"

Thats a total of 248000/22 = £11272 per Tb!

Meanwhile we can get 1Tb for about £55 so...

£248000/(£55 per Tb) = 4509Tb ... thats 4.5Pb! for the price they are asking.

(Also £55 is one off pricing, I bet if I asked for a lorry load of 4500 Hard Disks, it'll be a bit cheaper).

So I'm guessing I can backup my 22Tb of data way more than a few times for less than £248k! ... with that amount of money, I could build a few duplicate PCs and even employ my own minion (I mean valued employee ;) and still be saving a lot of money. So bloody big bonus for me then, while sitting back and sub-contracting the actual work to my very own minion!. :)

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