The company's new appliance also threatens to steal some of the thunder from the expected move by EMC to unveil new deduplication technology based on products OEM'd from Quantum. EMC, of Hopkinton, ...

The term data deduplication increasingly refers to the technique of data reduction by breaking streams of data down into very granular components, such as blocks or bytes, and then storing only the ...

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HP this week unveiled a two-pronged data deduplication strategy with its introduction of both a family of in-line and post-processing dedupe appliances. Meanwhile, Data Domain, Santa Clara, Calif., ...

As data deduplication matured last year, the constant question I was asked by industry analysts was "Isn't this just a feature?" The question implied that anyone that was specifically in the data ...

The advent of cloud storage has revolutionised data management by providing scalable and cost‐effective solutions to the challenges posed by exponentially growing digital information. Data ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

Mention that you are considering implementing disk for backup and recovery without using deduplication and you are likely to generate eye rolls from IT colleagues. Yet people seem to forget that ...

As storage costs continue to increase, it is becoming increasingly important to perform backups in a way that minimizes storage costs, but without sacrificing the protection of your data in the ...

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help. Deduplication is fairly common today in backups using a variety of appliances or software. Since this is ...