Who's Your Data?

Math is supposed to communicate concepts in a straight-forward and concrete way, right? Fat chance! Just ask an economist to interpret the recent non-GAAP numbers for company X and you will likely get an earful for an hour or two about how they can make the numbers say anything they want. Well, the same is true for some of the math we're seeing in the new de-duplication technologies.

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My name is Matt Divens and I am, by trade, a systems engineer in the storage industry for the Quantum Corporation. That being said, this blog has nothing to do with storage.

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