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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...