Deduplication and the chasm
With the Data Domain battle over, you may think that dedupe has crossed the Chasm made famous by Geoffrey Moore. It has in terms of awareness, but dedupe is still in its infancy in terms of wide scale adoption. Estimates are dedupe has penetrated less than one-third of the backup market and a lower percentage of secondary and primary storage. I think dedupe adoption will accelerate over the next 18 months (or the equivalent of one product releas...