Big Data is making life increasingly complicated for lawyers. In ediscovery, a big part of the challenge is simply eliminating duplicate copies of stuff – emails, Word documents, spreadsheets, files, ...

The rise of data in the workplace means corporate legal teams are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing volumes from an ever-expanding list of sources when it comes to ediscovery. Data needs to be ...

Data deduplication, also called intelligent compression or single-instance storage, is a means of reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored. The data deduplication process works by ...

Deduplication is arguably the biggest advancement in backup technology in the last two decades. It is single-handedly responsible for enabling the shift from tape to disk for the bulk of backup data, ...

In part one of this series, I covered the basic concepts of data duplication. Before getting to the next installment, I wanted to take a second and apologize to the readers for the long delay between ...

Network Appliance on Monday introduced deduplication for all types of file data rather than just backup data. In what might be the first such offering in the industry, Network Appliance’s A-SIS ...

Listen to a group of database professionals talk for awhile and someone will eventually bring up the topic of data deduplication. Data deduplication is a means to eliminate redundant data, either ...

I have a modest sized (seems to me) deduplication problem. Last week I went through all the files in my Pictures folder in an attempt to deduplicate them. That resulted in a reduction of the number of ...

In the first two installations of this blog, I discussed the business benefits of deduplication and how the technology works. I examined the different types of deduplication available, such as ...

Data deduplication — the process of detecting and removing duplicate data from a storage medium or file system — is one of those simple ideas that gets complex in the implementation. Duplicate data ...