Re: You've been ASIC'd
It's another 60% so once you have both on the array stops, turn zero detect on and things go backwards. :-) Honestly any person who told you that has no business selling or supporting any kind of storage.
Dedupe and compression use CPU, memory and backend IO on any platform, how much will depend on the architecture, mix of data, algorithms in use and a few hundred other factors. If you can't turn it off then you'll never know the impact so you can always claim it's zero but those CPU's and memory are there for a reason. Throw an unfriendly workload at it and watch as dedupe and compression simply burn CPU cycles and eat memory to little effect.
But the simple answer is take it for a test drive and run a POC or even a bake off, you'll be pleasantly surprised how it stacks up vs the competition and that's before you look at the other all inclusive data services.
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