Decoding Deduplication: Guidelines, Technology Selection and Implementation

By eliminating redundant or duplicate data, deduplication technologies are helping organizations to reduce storage requirements, shrink the window required to back up data, and minimize demands on network bandwidth. This, in turn, is helping to improve backup and recovery efficiencies and significantly reduce IT costs. This Advisory Guide highlights the value and categories of deduplication technologies and discusses the various types of deduplication methods that are typically used in the real world.