Data deduplication’s rise from a niche product to widely accepted technology is vindicated by the growing number of vendors now offering it either as a standalone product or as a feature in their backup products. Everybody talks about it today, but 10 years from now, everybody’s just going to expect it to be in storage devices.

This expert E-Guide outlines the benefits of different dedupe methods and offers some insight on how these methods apply to specific environments. Read now to explore:

• Why latency remains a barrier to using dedupe with primary storage
• File, block and variable length segment dedupe
• In-line vs. post-process dedupe
• Source vs. target
• And more