One of the more useful features of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is native data deduplication. Although deduplication features have existed in storage hardware for years, the release ...

Microsoft has added a data deduplication capability to its System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM) product. The recommended architecture involves running DPM in a virtual machine with the ...

All those copies of data increase hardware, power, and IT costs. Data deduplication is the answer, and Windows shops may already have the core technology in place “Storage is cheap!” you might say.

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 ...

A Windows 2008R2 server was attached to a Compellent Storage Center S30 SAN with two volumes, both created from snapshots of a production server volume several months apart. Netbackup 7.0 was ...

Data is flooding the enterprise. Storage administrators are struggling to handle a spiraling volume of documents, audio, video and images, along with an alarming proliferation of large email ...

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 ...

Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

Data deduplication appliances from FalconStor, NetApp, and Spectra Logic provide excellent data reduction for production storage, disk-based backups, and virtual tape Ever wonder why hard drive ...