More and more businesses are showing an interest in implementing data deduplication technology in their virtualized environments because of the amount of redundant data in virtual server environments.

In this Q&A with Jeff Boles, senior analyst with the Taneja Group, learn about why organizations are more interested in data dedupe for server virtualization, whether target or source deduplication is better for a virtualized environment, what to watch out for when using dedupe for virtual servers, and what VMware's vStorage APIs have brought to the scene.