W. Curtis Preston interviews Gideon Senderov, Director of Advanced Storage for NEC, at VMWorld 2012 in San Francisco. They discuss HYDRAstor, a global deduplication solution, based on erasure coding, which provides scale-out of capacity and/or performance. They talk about the proper definition of global deduplication. They also talk about how HYDRAstor can start as a small system and scale up to 165 nodes with deduplication across all nodes and performance up to 300 TB/hour.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• VMWorld 2012
• NEC
• Gideon Senderov