VMware Performance and Deduplication

Last week I talked about deduplication and its advantages for VMware environments.  One question I heard from a reader, "if the savings are as great as you're saying, why isn't deduplication in VMware environments everywhere today?"  And on the surface, I think the answer is simple, the key challenge to VMware deduplication is performance.   IT organizations have come to understand how deduplication saves on storage costs, but they are genera...