Storage Management Strategies for the CIOEssential Guide to Data Deduplication
sponsored by Storage Magazine
ABSTRACT:
Deduplication is the hottest thing to hit backup since disk began popping up in backup configurations. With its ability to stretch usable capacity to accommodate ever-growing data stores, dedupe might just be the single technology that keeps disk in the picture as a viable alternative to tape for short-term retention of backup data.
The idea behind dedupe technology is simple-it trims the amount of data to be stored by eliminating the redundancies so typical of backups, allowing you to effectively cram far more data into the same physical space by factors ranging from 10 to 50 times or more.
The benefits are apparent and make pitching a dedupe deployment to upper management a relatively easy exercise. But dedupe does have its finer points, with capabilities, efficiencies and administrative issues varying from product to product, and from one environment to another.
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