Introduction to IBM Real-time Compression Appliances

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  From left: Teddy Setiawan, Misa Miletic, Roland Tretau, Steven Pemberton, Tom Provost xxvi

1-1  Compression use cases 5

2-1  Space efficient volume 11

2-2  Space efficient Flash Copy 12

2-3  Easy Tier data allocation 13

2-4  Data deduplication 14

3-1  Real-time Compression Appliance overview 18

3-2  RACE technology overview 20

3-3  Random Access Compression Engine 21

3-4  Network data integrity mechanism 25

3-5  Network implementation 26

4-1  STN6500 and STN6800 front-panel components 31

4-2  STN6500 rear-panel components with 16 copper ports 32

4-3  STN6800 rear panel with four 10 GbE ports and eight 1 GbE ports (FC #1001) 32

4-4  STN6800 rear panel with Eight 10 GbE ports (FC #1010) 32

6-1  General ...