On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Kelly Lipp wrote: > We have a customer that insisted on buying one of these for his TSM > environment. Promised 20:1 dedup. He saw about five to one. He was in our > Level 2 class telling the story. At the end he said he wouldn't buy it > again. I made him repeat that part of the story...
DataDomain's "Best Practices" guide for TSM tells customers not to let nodes compress data. I have to wonder how much compressing the data or not alters the dedup ratio. I'm not at all sure that we're going enforce a "no compression" policy for our clients.
