Data deduplication

Scott from EMC posted about the EMC DL3D 4000 today. He was responding to some questions by W. Curtis Preston regarding the product and GA. I am not going to go into detail about the post, but wanted to clarify one point. Sepaton Inc., a maker of tapeless data storage and backup technologies, has closed a $15.5 million Series F round of funding. The investment was led by new investor Focus Ventures. Returning investors in Sepaton include California-based Menlo Ventures, Virginia’s Valhalla Partners, Israel-based Jerusalem Venture Partners and Boston-based HarbourVest Partners. As recently discussed in this post, SEPATON restores data at up to 3,000 MB/sec (11.0 TB/hr) both with data deduplication dedupe enabled and disabled. Scott insinuates that only EMC is capable of the performance he mentions and I wanted to clarify for the record that SEPATON is almost twice as fast as the fastest EMC system. Palo Alto, Calif. -- Focus Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm focused on the technology sector, has led a new $15.5 million round of funding for Massachusetts-based Sepaton, Mass High Tech Reported. Founded in 2003, Sepaton is a developer of technology for reducing risk and improving operational efficiency in data centers. Menlo Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Valhalla Partners and HarbourVest Partners also participated in the company's sixth round.