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Deduplication and the Enterprise Database – Part 2

In my previous blog, I identified three potential inhibitors to the adoption of deduplication on primary storage: performance, cost and scalability. Sure enough, the early adopters I've spoken with have all run into these issues. They are all looking forward to having Albireo-enabled solutions hit the market.  Last week I discussed how storage systems that implement Permabit's Albireo can avoid traditional performance penalties, but what about o...

Deduplication and the Enterprise Database

Recently I've been thinking about the value of primary storage deduplication for structured data environments. Enterprise databases have been the target for data optimization techniques for some time. All of the major DB vendors have had integrated compression in their products for the last couple of years, with some even going so far as to introduce LOB-level deduplication capabilities. At the same time, both backup vendors and backup storage ap...