Data Deduplication Rockets Ahead
Nearly halfway through 2007, storage managers have made up their minds on the merits of data deduplication technology.
“I wouldn’t buy a secondary storage device today that doesn’t have it,” said Michael Thomas, storage architect with the Federal Reserve Bank, at a recent Storage Decisions conference.
It’s easy to see why. The latest virtual tape libraries (VTL), which include data deduplication as a feature, claim to offer users as much as a 50-to-1 reduction in storage footprint by deduplicating redundant backup data. The savings in cost per gigabyte stored can be huge. …more
Source: Jo Maitland - SearchStorage - 6/1/07
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