IT organizations today are dealing with more data than ever before. And while traditional backup and recovery strategies are struggling to keep up with emerging technologies like virtualization, and IT budgets continue to tighten, many businesses are looking to storage optimization as a means to save money.

This white paper from IDC explores the business value of data deduplication in terms of factors like cost-effectiveness, efficiency and productivity regarding a wide array of backup and recovery challenges. In this paper you'll discover the benefits of deduping through several real-world scenarios and receive an overall benefits analysis of dedupe. Read on for more.