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E-Guide: Backup and dedupe trends and use cases

Recently, complaints about the rate of data growth have gotten louder and a lot of them can be attributed to the influx of unstructured data and trend towards digital and web content repositories.

Truth be told, however, capacity constraints have been an issue for a while, storage pros are just coping with them differently.

This E-Guide provides insight into the new ways that organizations are dealing with data proliferation and the technology advancements that have prompted interest in them. Read on to find out why implementing deduplication is a logical course of action for many companies and learn how one business navigated the marketplace and decided on the right dedupe strategy for their business.

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