It was just a matter of time! The Dedupe 1.0 era comes to an end! For readers that may not know the phrase Dedupe 1.0 is what we refer to as the initial phase of dedupe which employed the use case of dedupe in backup. Simple enough backups by their nature contain an excessively high duplicate rate. Since the daily backup is 90% duplicate from the previous day it stands to reason that the initial use case for dedupe would be backup.
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Every New Year brings with it hope for a more prosperous year than the one before and a clearing of the previous year’s frustrations. We all enter New Years Eve with a sense of optimism and it’s a good time to look at the horizon and predict what we think the next be 12 months will look like.
Having waited a few weeks; I have tempered my unbridled optimism while looking ahead to the end of the year 2010. From a technology perspective, I...