Blog Bankruptcy or "Blogruptcy" comes about with the convergence of 3 underlying factors. "Comment Bankruptcy", "Logical Bankruptcy" and finally "Ethical Bankruptcy". I don't do this lightly, but this past week I've witnessed events which lead me to declare one particular blog completely bankrupt.
About a month ago, B&S editor Mary Jander published a blog covering the recent Green Enterprise IT awards, which featured NetApp and 7 other winning vendors. NetApp was cited for improving primary (gross) usable capacity from 40% (already above the Unix/Windows industry average of 30%) to 60% for our internal production systems which feature all advanced data protection and replication features enabled. Note that the judges reviewed NetApp's infrastructure for this award before we released our unique FAS deduplication functionality for primary as well as secondary data sets. Our internal analysis shows deploying FAS deduplication increases NetApp usable capacity numbers even higher.
NetApp was also recognized by the Uptime Institute in that same study for reducing our total number of storage systems from 50 to 10, cutting our number of racks from 25.83 to 5.48, and decreasing direct power consumption by 41,184 kWh per month.
However over in the comments section of that B&S blog today, one user seemingly wasn't impressed by the resulting 60% usable capacity number, so I offered up a short explanation (comment #6). As Paul Harvey likes to say, here's the rest of the story...
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As someone who has been selling storage systems for over 10 years, I will use this blog to expose many of the more sensational, mundane, interesting and unexpected practices in our industry - enterprise storage.
