Archive for August, 2011
In my last two posts, I explored why deduplication approaches vary widely and dedupe everywhere sometimes isn't really "everywhere". I hope I was successful in describing that the names may be the same in dedupe and dedupe everywhere, but what is delivered may be very different. Although the approaches in deduplication vary, they are based on the ability to effectively address the key performance issues that have been, until now, inhibiting d...
Dedupe is a hot topic and the differences between dedupe implementations was the topic of my previous post Now there continues to be differences in vendor offerings and marketing plays a role in defining who does what and how they describe it. "Dedupe Everywhere" has been a phrase a few are beginning to use so I wanted to provide some clarity on the use case of dedupe everywhere and what it means.
Data is everywhere and the need to reduce the ...
Data optimization has come under much scrutiny lately because it is a hot topic. As we are now beginning to think "outside of the box" on uses of data optimization, it might be useful to understand that dedupe isn't always the same! For example, some of the early uses of dedupe were in single instance approaches that were at the file level. So, if an entire file was not exactly the same as another file, they were not considered a duplicate.
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In my previous post, I positioned deduplication as evolving to an "out of the box" approach that will deliver broader and more effective savings in dollars as well as space and resources. Now you may be asking yourself, with dedupe firmly entrenched in the backup realm, why do we need to dedupe anywhere else? Good question, let's explore some of these answers.
The famous bank robber Will Sutton's response to the question of "Why do you rob bank...
