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Dedupe isn’t always dedupe

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. Tak...