Author: Ilker Cebeli

Data Compression Q&A

Ilker Cebeli
Everyone is looking to squeeze more efficiency from storage. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum hosted a live webcast last month “Compression: Putting the Squeeze on Storage.” The audience asked many great questions on compression techniques. Here are answers from our expert presenters, John Kim and Brian Will: Q. When multiple unrelated entities are likely to compress the data, how do they understand that the data is already compressed and so skip the compression? A. Often they can tell from the file extension or header that the file has already been compressed. Otherwise each entity that wants to compress the data will try to compress it and then discard the results if it makes the file larger (because it was already compressed). Read More

Compression Puts the Squeeze on Storage

Ilker Cebeli
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: Read More