As storage costs continue to increase, it is becoming increasingly important to perform backups in a way that minimizes storage costs, but without sacrificing the protection of your data in the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Every IT decision maker either ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

No doubt about it: data deduplication can be a magic bullet for backup. Organizations that apply it intelligently will see faster backups, easier restores, and a reduction in power, space, and cooling ...

As data deduplication matured last year, the constant question I was asked by industry analysts was "Isn't this just a feature?" The question implied that anyone that was specifically in the data ...

Process known as data deduplication is white-hot. So hot that Data Domain, virtually unknown outside the storage world, is now deemed worth at least $1.9 billion. John, a senior partner at Evaluator ...

Mention that you are considering implementing disk for backup and recovery without using deduplication and you are likely to generate eye rolls from IT colleagues. Yet people seem to forget that ...

I found myself thinking about storage deduplication recently, while wondering why only large enterprises can afford this technology. Yet signs are it won't be too long before it becomes commonplace.