Dedupe “Comes Out of the Box”

Dedupe as we have known it is rapidly evolving and we need to think about it differently! Until recently a dedupe box or appliance was the status quo. It was a specialized device that was used, for the most part, in a data backup operation. It was an appliance that had its own separate storage, operating system, specialized software and in some cases, special hardware. As with many new technologies, the dedupe appliance was a step in the proces...