Deduplication – Moving Beyond Backup

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. 715...