Bob Petrocelli here, CEO of GreenBytes, and this is my first blog entry on our new website. Expect plenty of information about how our technology works and performs in the coming weeks. I thought I would start off this blog by demonstrating something unique in our storage appliance. One of our objectives was to provide a lot of information directly to users about the performance of the deduplication engine. One way to do this is to ask the system administrator to run MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and look directly at the statistics presented in the storage pool summary.
This provides a great overview of the optimization at the storage pool level. But why should admins have all the fun? We have taken this concept a step further and given our users the power to examine their own files. Try right clicking on a file stored on our appliance from Windows Explorer and select properties. Check out the GreenBytes tab:
Pretty cool! Now, if you want to know how “dedupalicious” your data is, you no longer need to guess!
Stay tuned — more fun stuff is coming.
