Data deduplication has become one of the most ubiquitous features of the storage industry, with storage vendors continuing to find new places to add the technology. It’s a move that at first glance ...

With the move, Dell becomes the second major storage vendor, after EMC, to adopt Quantum technology for its product line. EMC unveiled a dedupe relationship with Quantum in May. The decision by Dell ...

Deduplication is arguably the biggest advancement in backup technology in the last two decades. It is single-handedly responsible for enabling the shift from tape to disk for the bulk of backup data, ...

The deduplication ratio in an environment primarily depends on data retention period, data change rate, and backup policy. Lower the data change rate, higher the deduplication ratio. Full backup ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

Complex multi-tier applications and components communicate with one another using the network infrastructure in the datacenter and between datacenters. Often, these communications paths are the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Every IT decision maker either ...

There's just too much stuff out there, and it's filling storage devices as fast as they can be upgraded -- 50 percent data growth a year, I'm told, is par for the course. We 're talking about standard ...

Reducing data at the source is the smart way to do backup. That is the conclusion I came to in my last post, If files were bricks, you’d change your backup strategy. But I also left off by saying ...