Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
- Posted:
- Mar 8, 2013
- Published:
- Mar 8, 2013
- Format:
- Length:
- 6 Page(s)
- Type:
- White Paper
- Language:
- English
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The Debate Over Global Deduplication
Sponsored by: SearchDataBackup.comCombining both source and target deduplication might sound promising, but there’s one major disadvantage: Source + target dedupe solutions tend not to scale very well. The sheer volume of data that needs to be backed up often causes the backup target’s controller to become a bottleneck.
Global deduplication is similar to source + target deduplication in that data is deduplicated at the source and again at the backup target. However, global deduplication solutions attempt to eliminate bottlenecks through load balancing.
Check out this E-Book for expert insight into global deduplication, including:
- Examples of global dedupe
- Who benefits from global dedupe?
- Is global dedupe necessary?
- And more