ThirdWave

Primary:Secondary is 1:8 average - the bell curve could shape toward 40 in some cases

@dvellante nutz

That's a scary number.

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Stuart Miniman

can't flash help reduce this number by giving fast access to a copy rather than having many copies for various uses?

Storage Alchemist

@stu can help w/ speed, but I have to make a copy, put it on flash to use it, that is expensive - lots of data movement, no reuse

Ira Goodman

Just the reality of the "8 secondary copies" make the storage vendors jump for joy!

Matt Starr

@Peter_Eicher One of the reasons dedup backups get "good" compression -- we just keep copying and backing up the same data. Make 2 archive copies of your data and stop backing it up.

Storage Alchemist1

do you think of backups, replication, BCVs, snaps???

yes, yes, yes and yes

Storage Alchemist9

Q1. When you think of ‘copy data’ what do you really thing of?

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EMC's income statement

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tongue in cheek but it's true - EMC has made a living on copies

ttessks

@my incremental copies - version 1, 2...40 is my first thought.

John Furrier

Copy data has broad implications

ttessks

@my tiers of backups is my next thought - lots of copies there. afraid to lose the data.

John Furrier

Most IT folks don't put backup on the front burner when looking at the architecture and budgeting process

Kevin

@dvellante EMC also offers zero-overhead copy support with snaps/clones though as well @EMCXtremIO

yes xtremio's copy services are really nice - space efficient and flash is a game changer w/ copy data

Steven Beedle

copy creep, 1, 2(too), many . . .

Dave Vellante2

Welcome everyone - let's talk about 'copy creep'

hey I'm in

remember to respond the questions in the thread

Kevin

copy creep indeed! Accounts for majority of enterprise data

Storage Alchemist

@kevinclosson how much copys data is there in your env...

Sathya Sankaran

Copy Creep costs only $44B. Greater than a whopping 100 countries' GDP