Everyone knows data volumes are exploding faster than IT budgets. And customers are increasingly moving to flash storage, which is faster and easier to use than hard drives, but still more expensive. To cope with this conundrum and squeeze more efficiency from storage, storage vendors and customers can turn to data reduction techniques such as compression, deduplication, thin provisioning and snapshots. On September 2, 2020, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum will specifically focus on data compression in our live webcast, “Compression: Putting the Squeeze on Storage.” Compression can be done at different times, at different stages in the storage process, and using different techniques. We’ll discuss:
  • Where compression can be done: at the client, on the network, on the storage controller, or within the storage devices
  • What types of data should be compressed
  • When to compress: real-time compression vs. post-process compression
  • Different compression techniques
  • How compression affects performance
Join me and my SNIA colleagues, John Kim and Brian Will, for this compact and informative webcast! We hope to see you on September 2nd. Register today.